Oleksiy Horbunov

Juvenile Inspektor: The Shadow Over Jõhvi (2026)

In Soviet-occupied Estonia, a boy is caught between a broken family, the suffocating grip of state power, and forces far older than the empire itself. As propaganda and betrayal close in, he discovers that the greatest danger emerges where political oppres ...

Malevych (2025)

What stands behind the Black Square, painted in 1915 by the obsessive artist Kazymyr Malevych? ...

Kompromat (2022)

Mathieu, a member of the French institute in Irkutsk, is arrested overnight by the Russian authorities. Imprisoned and accused of sexual abuse on his own daughter, he realises he is a victim of a Kompromat. With the help of the FSB, someone has built up a ...

Kordon (2022)

Kordon tells the story of four ordinary women who, on the border with Ukraine in a station on the outskirts of a Zahony country that seems to stand still in time, do something extraordinary to help and give hope to a people under siege. A moving portrait o ...

Run, Tanya, Run (2021)

Usually on their birthday people run away from work to home, but Tanya runs away from home to work. Yet this day has become fatal for her - she was fired. She has nowhere else to run to, she doesn't want to go home. Will Tanya be able to meet herself, at l ...

Occupation (2021)

After the premiere, the theatre group gathers in a bar to celebrate. However, the cheerful gathering is interrupted by a drunken Soviet officer. He insists on selling a can of petrol. However, when he senses the awkwardness, the hidden hatred, the cowardic ...

The Last Mercenary (2021)

A legendary secret service agent comes out of hiding and returns to France to help the son he's never met get out of trouble. ...

Bullmastiff (2020)

Mitya is a war veteran who is trying to return to normal. He accidentally meets the lost bullmastiff called Roy. Relationships are complicated at first, but in the end, it is Roy who helps Mitya cope with his difficult past. ...

The Forgotten (2019)

Nina, 30, a Ukrainian language teacher who can't leave the city of Luhansk, occupied by separatists in Eastern Ukraine, is forced to undergo retraining courses for teaching Russian. Andrii, 17, is a student who was orphaned in the aftermath of the war. The ...

Present Continuum (2019)

What is the most important moment of the present? I am "here and now" as though in certain environment. The main heroine Poli teaches people how to live here and now - in present continuum. She holds workshops - communicating with everyone separately, but ...

While the Candle Is Burning (2018)

A teenage girl, a resident of the metropolis, on Holodomor Remembrance Day, decides to fight the lack of candles in the windows of high-rise buildings around her. Properly prepared, she enters the porches and places candles on all available windows. On the ...

The Wild Fields (2018)

The protagonist, Herman has to come back to his native Donbas after years spent away. He has to look into the case of his brother's sudden disappearance. Herman meets real and unreal characters, his childhood friends and the local mafia. And suddenly, to h ...

May (2018)

This is a film-mood. This is the film that was born from the city's air, from the real situations that were happening to its citizens. That's why the script is relative, even though it exists... It's about the life on the film set. It's about the love in t ...

The Fight Rules (2017)

Film tells an exciting story of a confrontation between talented boxer and criminal patrons of mixed fights MMA. ...

Locust (2014)

The innocent summer affair began as a love story between two young people. Lera and Artem could not break it off, as well as they didn`t have enough of faith, patience and desire to overcome all the obstacles on their life path. The Locust Generation wants ...

Trumpeter (2014)

The film is about a young trumpeter Nicholas Shevchenko. He's a talented musician, who also writes his own music, attracting the attention of the world famous musician Eugene Gaisin, who tours the city. ...

Scribblers (2014)

A comedy about how two unlucky heroes, one of whom dreamed of becoming a pilot, and the other an actor, accidentally get a chance to fulfill both dreams at once on the set of a new film. However, in the very first scene, they manage to crash a sponsor's he ...

Sherlock Holmes (2013)

A Russian crime drama series, based on the Sherlock Holmes detective stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ...

Khaytarma (2013)

The film tells about the tragic date in the history of the Crimean Tatar people — May 18, 1944 — Stalin's deportation of the Crimean Tatars. The plot of the film — a pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Amethan Sultan. In May, 1944, a year after li ...

Möbius (2013)

An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank. ...

Eastalgia (2012)

When Ruslana floods her Munich flat, Vladan, a former Boxer from Serbia, comes to her rescue. It is the night when Ruslana's son Bogdan should finally come from Kyiv. He rather falls in love with the spoiled pop-starlet Maria, for whom he is working. Both, ...

The Spy (2012)

Spring 1941. Center of Moscow. Duel of the two intelligence services turns more and more tense. ...

Atomic Ivan (2012)

Vanya, a young scientist, has spent all his life in a satellite town next to one of the biggest nuclear stations. Just like his parents, Vanya works at the nuclear station, but only because his girlfriend, Tanya, also works in the facility. When the ambiti ...

Mommies (2012)

Every year on the International Women's Day telephone networks transfer millions of phone calls and SMS messages. The vast majority of phone calls are addressed to the most important women in lives of everyone - to our mothers. But what would it be if beca ...

The PyraMMMid (2011)

Russia, early 90s. A fictional story inspired by financier Sergey Mavrodi, his securities company "MMM", and the pyramid scheme he ran that left upwards of fifteen million investors with nothing when it crashed. ...

The 5th Execution (2011)

On a remote island in Southeast Asia, a team of scientists, studying the regenerative properties of the salamander, discovers what their Bangkok headquarters refer to as "The Priceless Gift": an elixir of life. News of the discovery travels quickly, and pr ...

The Edge (2010)

The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, and vice ...

PG 16... (2010)

Kir, Leya, Dasha and Max are student. Almost every experience is for a first time to them - first love, first disappointment, first betrayal... ...

PorNO (2010)

Max films his friends having lecherous fun at his own birthday party; unaware of how it will change his life. Just out of high school, by haphazard, he becomes a big porno producer. His father, a principled police major, chases porno makers, not suspecting ...

I Am (2009)

The film tells the story of a young Russian in the early 90s, trying to escape the army in a psychiatric clinic. He's released years later, after intensive compulsory treatment. Has a documentary film maker he gets involved in the Chechen conflict, where h ...

Get That Girl (2009)

Meet the Solntsevo family - three crazy kids with no parental supervision, living in a hovel in the middle of Nowhere-on-the-Black-Sea. When their shack blows up, what can they do? Flee to Moscow in search of food, love, happiness and Mom - with one of the ...

The House of Sun (2009)

The whole world of a young girl Sasha is changing after she meets Sun - a hippie leader. ...

Riorita (2009)

The former supervisor of the camp of political prisoners, Barkhatov, turned out to be an ordinary corporal in the war, failed, and did not want to change in the new circumstances and remained a camp "turntable". And during the war, being together with naiv ...

The Inhabited Island 2: Rebellion (2009)

Maxim Kammerer fights for his love and freedom. He leads a rebel movement challenging the five greedy rulers. One of the rulers, Strannik, knows how dangerous Maxim can be. He makes up his mind to stop the young man at any cost. The last close fight will d ...

The Inhabited Island (2009)

On the threshold of 22nd century, furrowing the space, protagonist from the Free Search Group makes emergency landing on an unknown planet where he must stay. People who are living on this planet have remained at the stone level of the 20th century, with i ...

Stradivarius Pistol (2009)

Odesa businessman Marfela blackmails a visiting young man, Nikita, into taking on a job that he considers pure pleasure: he must compromise his wife so that Marfela can divorce her and inherit his dying brother's billions without any losses. Nikita seduces ...

Hipsters (2008)

In this hit Russian musical, a group of friends flaunts Soviet authority in 1950s Moscow by embracing jazz. When Communist Mels falls for Polly, a free-spirited jazz fan, he risks losing his party membership by associating with her rebellious crew. ...

Little Moscow (2008)

During the Cold War, a local Polish officer and a young Soviet woman wedded to a Soviet officer are drawn together by music. ...

The One Who Switches Off the Light (2008)

For two months a serial killer has been terrorizing the city of St. Petersburg. Every Wednesday a girl between 9 and 12 years old is the victim. The brutality of the maniac plunges city residents into horror. Parents are afraid of leaving their children al ...

Illusion of Fear (2008)

Story of a successful businessman, who has to protect his business in difficult conditions. He gets entrapped into the net of law enforcement structures and after arrest the protagonist starts to notice weird things: some of his interlocutors appear to be ...

Belyaev (2008)

Once there were seven of them. They were engaged in science and did not assume that their secret experiment to create a person close to the ideal would be successful. They thought that no one would ever find out. But years passed, and it turned out that so ...

A Real Dad (2008)

Roman Shilo, a known criminal, suddenly must deal with his fourteen years old daughter and not only with her but with her little stepbrother and stepsister as well. ...

The Three and the Snowflake (2007)

Three friends are traveling to Amsterdam where they suddenly meet Katya - a young girl who soon become very important for the two of them. ...

12 (2007)

A loose remake of "12 Angry Men", "12" is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a schoo ...

Savages (2006)

The sea, August, interesting and simple people. They tan, swim, play volleyball, basketball, drink, dance and then find someone to spend the night with. Many grew out of their student phase and can afford a more comfortable holiday but when July comes they ...

Sword-Bearer (2006)

A young boy's dreams of glory and war turn into a bitter nightmare as his father's kingdom is overrun by an invading army. Lost and alone in the woods, he finds an ancient sword that promises him the ability to claim his vengeance. ...

Игроки (2006)

Alive (2006)

A veteran of the Chechen War is helped by the ghosts of his two fallen comrades to leave the war behind. ...

The Last Bottomhole (2006)

A drama about a life of ordinary people in a small mining town. ...

Piranha Hunt (2006)

Agent of special department "Piranha" Kirill Mazur and his colleague Olga go to the far north with the assignment to liquidate an underwater secret weapon lab in the guise of a mutual vacation. All of a sudden, they find themselves in the world where civil ...

Happypeople (2006)

Well-to-do and rich friends are faced with an entertainment problem. There is nothing for them to be happy about. The resulting crisis is obvious to all, so the friends agree on the following game: every Wednesday, one player gives the other a task which i ...

We Will Die Together (2005)

The film built a classic love square: two pairs of MSU students are living vicissitudes. Everyone has their own destiny. It all depends on the choice of path. Some neglect the principles and norms, sweeping away the barriers of morality. Others remain tru ...

The State Counsellor (2005)

Third film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khrapov was killed and no one else but Erast Petrovich is under suspicion because the killer pretended to be F ...

Guidebook (2004)

Imagine that several cameras have moved from the outskirts to the center, capturing the most interesting and informative moments of city life in different parts of the city along the way. The characters of the film are its viewers: natives of Kyiv, provinc ...

It's Russian (2004)

Eda Savenko finds herself in a situation where she wants to take her daughter to a restaurant, but her parents refuse to provide the necessary funds. She decides to take drastic action by robbing the dining room and subsequently consuming alcohol. Observin ...

Don't Even Think 2: Independence Play (2004)

This story is about three slacker friends: Marat (a video store worker); Belyj (an unsuccessful actor); and Nick (a cowardly marshal arts practitioner). Bored with their lives and wanting to instead live in style, the boys rob the richest and most respecte ...

Cicuta (2002)

Pseudo-documentary style drama about drug addicts. In Kyiv, a dealer named Baroque receives an unknown psychedelic that opens access to another dimension. ...

Blue Moon (2002)

After screwing up a money exchange a Viennese small-time crook accompanied by a Russian hostess hits the road to the East. ...

Порода (2002)

Country of the Deaf (1998)

Strana Glukhikh is about an unusual relationship between two women, one of them a deaf-mute dancer and the other on the run from the mafia. Yaya, the deaf girl, offers to hide Rita whose boyfriend, Alyosha owes gambling debts to the mafia, but in return sh ...

Ivan & Abraham (1993)

In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes friends with Abraham, the son of the family. However, anti-Semitism is rife in their environment, and they flee to escape an upcoming conflict. Journeying tog ...

The Gold of the Party (1993)

A hunt for the money belong to the Communist Party is going ahead and takes victim after victim... ...

Fuchzhou (1993)

The action is set at the start of the twentieth century, between a village by the River Dnyepr and the coast of Florida. While the story has ironic, romantic and sometimes mystic angles, the bitter aspects of emigration from Ukraine to the United States be ...

Method of Murder (1993)

The plot is based on two parallel events, with detective Steve Carella at the center. He is assigned a difficult case: the day before, millionaire Scott, the owner of a luxurious villa, hanged himself in a small windowless room, having locked himself in fr ...

Oxygen Starvation (1992)

Soviet army was one the worst for human dignity places to be. The task of the army was to turn freethinkers into normal dumb Soviet people. An intelligent Ukrainian guy refuses to obey. ...

The Life of Alexander Nevsky (1992)

Some Up, Some Down (1992)

Peter Bublik went to work one day and... suddenly, from the era of "developed socialism" moved to the turbulent "perestroika" time, in the days of independence of Ukraine. The new realities of the period of initial capital accumulation brought to the surfa ...

Dandelions' Bloom (1992)

Yuras, a young man who has served eight years for a minor crime, is released from prison. He finds himself in his village, already in independent Ukraine. On the radio is heard a voice of the first president, who promises Ukrainians the right to a dignifie ...

Komu vgoru, komu vniz (1992)

One sunny morning in 1977 a man came out of the house, went to work and was in the 90s. ...

Man From The "Alpha" Team (1992)

Little-known facts about the activities of a special forces unit created to fight terrorists in the former USSR. The action takes place in Moscow in September 1993 during an attempt to seize the White House. ...

The Oath (1992)

Love triangle revealed during a wedding is set to a backdrop of Ukrainian history and tradition, with questions of honor and faithfulness asked. ...

Famine-33 (1991)

The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel 'The Yellow Prince' by Vasyl Barka. The film is told through the lives of the Katrannyk family of six. It relies more on images than on words shot in black-and-white. ...

When we died, bells did not ring (1991)

About the tragedy of the people of Western Ukraine Caught between Stalin and Hitler's totalitarian regimes. The film is dedicated to the soldiers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. ...

Two Steps to Silence (1991)

Afghanistan. February 1989. The last days of the stay of Soviet troops in a foreign country. Home soon, but the war is still going on. And many people wonder: who are you - an invader or a liberator?.. ...

Collapse (1990)

1986, Chornobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows. ...

Doping for Angels (1990)

You dreamed of an angel at night, and in the morning you found a gift under your door. And no matter how real the dream may seem, this gift is more likely from a cunning seducer, and the Angel has nothing to do with it. And if you are also an incorruptible ...

A Parcel For Margaret Thatcher (1990)

The film was created in the genre of an anecdote, where it is about a grandfather from a Ukrainian village who painted wooden eggs and decided to send them to the "iron lady". At the post office workers told him: "You can't!". But the grandfather showed ch ...

Gu-Ga (1989)

A story about the soldiers of Soviet punishment battalion during WWII. Month of service in a punishment battalion was equated to ten years in prison... ...

The Stone Soul (1988)

The events take place in the XIX century, in the Carpathian mountains. It is the screen adaptation of the novel by Hnat Khotkevych based on the legend of brave leaders who fought against the Austrian Habsburgs and the Polish magnates for the happiness and ...

New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1988)

The plane of the American pilot Hank Morgan got lost in time. The pilot falls into temporary loop and finds himself at the era of the glorious King Arthur. Here he is destined to meet the legendary knights of the Round Table and the insidious Queen Morgana ...

The Spy (1987)

1916: on the verge of being evicted from his apartment, unable to find a job, with a desperate wife and a sick child, a man wrestles with his conscience about whether to turn police informer for money. ...

Disc Jockey (1987)

Having set himself the goal of becoming a DJ, the hero simultaneously searches for the woman whose handbag he found in his hands after their first meeting. In the finale, the dance ensemble, led by the newly minted DJ with a new soloist, "performs" their o ...

Handfuls (1987)

The film tells the story of the difficult and tragic fate of a Prykarpattia family over several generations. The events take place in the difficult 30s and 40s. Zhmeniak's father tries to gather more land in his possession by all means. But not everyone un ...

To proceed with the investigation. Movie 2: Slander (1986)

For several years, the head of a major construction trust Melnikov was accused of embezzlement, bribe-taking and immoral behavior in anonymous letters. As a result of inspections by numerous commissions, all these "signals" were not confirmed. Melnikov, un ...

Approaching the Future (1986)

The hero of the film, academician Sergei Vasilyevich Lunin, director of the Kiev Research Institute of Informatics, is working on the implementation of the Unity project in the enterprises of a single department. According to his calculations, this global ...

Vacation of Petrov and Vasechkin, Usual and Incredible (1984)

In the first part, the students complain that classic works of literature have no bearing on modern life - and find themselves in a situation strangely resembling something they've read... It's Gogol's "Inspector General" - but set in a summer camp... In t ...

Cargo With No Markings (1984)

The assistant captain of a foreign merchant ship, Chief, contacts an international drug cartel. He agrees to transport a large shipment of drugs in unmarked containers. The markings will be added later, only at the shipper's request. Unexpectedly, the ship ...

May (2018)

This is a film-mood. This is the film that was born from the city's air, from the real situations that were happening to its citizens. That's why the script is relative, even though it exists... It's about the life on the film set. It's about the love in t ...