What the short? - Yakogo shorta? (Якого шорта?)

Filmgespräch
am 16.10. um 19:00 Uhr
Q&A afterwards

Ab Freitag, dem 16. Oktober

Infos

Ukraine 2026
Sprache(OV): ukrainisch
80 min

Zur Website des Filmes

Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin 2026

non-competition short film programme, 80', OmeU

A fresh mix of Ukrainian short films that find humour, absurdity, and tenderness in unexpected places. Unconventional, funny, and eccentric, these films are united by talent and true love of cinema.

Curated by Mariya Zoryk, Ivan Paniotov, Danyil Potopaiev, Jana Riemann

Details:

1. People of Dnipro
Mykyta Lyskov
Ukraine 2026
3 min
The video consists of photographs that I found in my relatives' house in the city of Dnipro, Ukraine.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/z1ih8Rtozcg

2. HOME TV / ДІМ TV
Sophia Gera
Ukraine 2025
27 min
A host for HOME TV finds herself in the heart of life on Kyiv’s central streets. Asking locals, displaced people, and visitors of the capital “what is home?”, she comes across different views and circumstances. The collage of answers gradually blurs the question itself, leaving her face-to-face with her own search.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1044050166

3. Fish in My Stomach
Yehor Holovkov
Ukraine 2026
6 min
A man wakes up with fish inside his stomach that bite him. Seeking relief, he follows sketchy men into an underground fish-fighting bar, only to realize that embracing his inner creatures is the key to his freedom.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wLoDoPT

4. Off the Chest / Одпустило
Dara Sokolova
Ukraine 2025
13 min
Not about death, not about space, not about the search for logic.
Two poor saps cross paths at the worst possible moment: full of honesty and zero dignity.
They’ve got it Off the Chest, finally.
The body feels lighter. The soul - still in question.
Inspired by Bohdan Zholdak’s “To Find Out the Logic”

5. Don't be naughty / Не бешкетуйте
Artem Kuznetsov
Ukraine 2026
5 min
After the owner leaves, a cat conflict begins to brew in the apartment, passions flare up, and it is unknown what this will lead to.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/4FNfpi6wWHU

6. 12-Hour Shift / 12 годин зміна
Maryna Dovhanych
Ukraine 2025
2 min
An ordinary workday at a steel plant — a place where clouds are born and fiery rivers flow; a place where everything feels like a dream that has become a memory.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu0h4Smu4Rk

7. Easter Day / Пасхальний день
Mykola Zasieiev
France, Ukraine 2025
17 min
On Easter Sunday in Kyiv, two soldiers from the army recruitment office drive slowly through the streets, watching men who might be called to serve. Their search leads them to a young man who has stepped out only to buy food for his cat. He may try to avoid their gaze, but yet on this holy day, nothing is as simple as it first appears.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1125568309/cecd8cbac6

8. Schmes' / Шмєсь
Viktoriia Turetska
Germany 2026
7 min
A monster lady named Schmes' lives hidden in a basement, unbeknownst to the young couple in the house above her. Schmes' longs to be accepted as a member of the family and decides to enter their bedroom one night. But will they be able to accept a strange creature such as herself?

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/119554233

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The 7th Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin will take place 14 – 18 October 2026 under the theme “Emergency Spaces”.
The festival presents the latest contemporary films from Ukraine alongside curated thematic programmes and retrospectives.

“In recent years, one crisis has followed another, making the reality we once knew seem increasingly distant and difficult to grasp. This is precisely why spaces of refuge and solidarity have become so important: they offer room for reflection and open up new perspectives for the future.”
— Daria Buteiko, Festival Co-Founder

Das Festival ist vom 15. - 18.10.26 auch wieder im ACUDkino zu Gast.