Best Ukrainian animation movies

Kobzar 2015 (2017)

In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for Turkey and were executed by other Zaporizhian Sich Cossacks are reanimated as living dead at one cold night.

The Good Soldier Shweik (2012)

An average soldier is caught up in the cogs of an inhuman war machine during the First World War.

Filter Selfie (2020)

Short film about selfie culture.

Unnecessary Things (2021)

The film tells the story of a robot named Rob. One day he was walking around the city and saw an elderly man sitting in a chair inside the Store of Unwanted Things. Next to the man, there was a sign “For Sale.” The owner of the store said that the goods were up for sale. The man's name was Robert. Rob wanted to have a friend. He made a purchase and received a receipt. Robert explained that he was now Rob's pet and from now on Rob should provide him with a roof over his head, feed him, and make sure he doesn’t get bored. The robot and man started living together…

LSD (1994)

A film about the coexistence of two relations of human consciousness and universal reality. No one knows what reality is. Consciousness can be submissive and different. The different one floats in the flow of unjust world order.

Prychynna. The Story of Love (2017)

The war separates lovers, but their hearts remain together. The young woman loses her mind, but love gives her strength to wait for her beloved.

Hostess (2020)

The autumn merciless wind brings a middle-aged man to a cafe. Strange cafe: amazing waiter, strange visitors and strange tastes - The man's menu attracts the most expensive dish called "Summer full". What kind of dish is this? He makes an order. But the wait is dragging on.

Walking Through the Forest (2022)

Didko (aka the devil) is a character of Ukrainian folk demonology. The narrative conveys that didko is waiting for everyone who misbehaves and will torture them. Only this work doesn't depict them in a traditional way, with little horns upon the pig's face, with goat legs and covered in fur. Instead, it suggests their appearance as humans, implying that anyone could be a sinner and anyone could be a devil.

Viy (1996)

Three friends lived in a Ukrainian village. They were not rich, so they were happy to take up the proposed small job. They had to go to another village at a dark night. On the way, they saw a small farmhouse and a cottage, where they decided to spend the night. Thus very strange mystical events began.

Clinic (1993)

Have you ever been haunted by terrible nightmares about doctors? All the evil spirits led by Wiy the radiologist and all the worst from the field of medicine await you in the animation "Clinic".

Yulia's Birthday (1994)

A modern fairy tale about a girl who is looking for her lost soul. First love, jealousy, death – everything can be found in this fantastic animation movie. Julia's fiance died tragically. Having grieved a little, Julia decided to get married again. But the dead bridegroom returned for Julia's soul. In order to save her soul, the girl had to go to the other world.

Family Name in the Pocket (2020)

A short film about Holodomor. Based on a real life story. A woman is walking a long way from one village, where everyone has died of famine, to another, with no survivors left. She is hiding away from everyone, all she can think about is how to rescue her son from starvation. The only way to do it is to put the child on a train heading to some town.

The Little Mitten (1996)

Once in winter a gray mouse ran through the forest. She was cold, so she was very glad when someone had dropped a mitten on the ground. Having climbed inside and warmed up, someone suddenly knocked at it. It turned out that many more animals also needing warmth and comfort will visit the mitten.

Івасик-телесик (1989)

Last Call: Indian Son (2022)

There are some 77K foreign students in Ukraine. Naveen S G of India is one of them, studying in Kharkiv and hiding in a shelter. On 1 March, as he goes to buy some food, he becomes the first foreign student killed by Russia in this war. An episode of the web series "Ukraine on Fire 2" by Vyacheslav Bihun , which had a separate festival distribution as an independent work.

How the Cossacks Played Hockey (1995)

The final episode, released after the fall of the Soviet Union, features the Cossacks as the parents of an entire children’s hockey team. While hosting the Canadian hockey team, they have to thwart their former pirate enemies once again.

The Tram #9 Was Going (2002)

A morning tram over-occupied with passengers, but more and more people are trying to get in there. Inside, the life fountains. Someone talks about their troubles with children, somebody experiences a personal trauma, others can not stand up to quarrel, neighbors discuss a TV-series... All the events where usually, at least in the days this cartoon was created, common Ukrainians are involved in on their way to job-places is shown in this curious, vivid and witty claymation.

Deep Love (2019)

Deep love has finally happened in Ukraine.

Mermaid (2013)

Mermaid or not a mermaid? Here's a question for the caveman and his girlfriend.

Bohdanchyk and the Drum (1992)

A funny story about a boy who annoys everyone by playing his drum.

Сказочная Русь. Президенты Удачи! (2015)

Deep Water (2021)

A tale about a smooth and lonely Middle-aged Mermaid who lives at the bottom of a lake and has the magical ability to look through the water for thousands of miles. Her favorite pastime is spying on people through water pipes. One day, during such a spying, the mermaid falls in love with a man, and blinded by passion, comes to his apartment.

Forest Song (2019)

This film about what people are focusing on and what they sometimes miss.

The Cord (2019)

This film is about blind maternal love, overcare, that doesn't let the son grow into a man, but makes his inner child stay helpless and infantile for ages.

The Surrogate (2020)

A man destroys the nest of an unknown creepy creature. But it's not the most horrible creature he will meet tonight.

If You Can (2017)

A simple, clear road map to becoming a superior life-form.

Case, Love, Gangs (2010)

The main hero is an art thief who signs up for the mobster's order to steal the Golden Head from the municipal museum. But suddenly another thief appears hired by the rival mafia group. This creeper Gekkona from under Orl's nose has stolen the key which opened the treasure where the Golden Head was kept. In chase of the halidom Orl and Gekkona fall in love with each other and give their clients the push.

The Fish-Tailed Girl (2013)

Both a tale and a parable about a girl, who one day disappears from her room and appears in a magic forest. And what's most interesting, she has a fish tail. In the forest the Girl meets the Iron Wolf who speaks in riddles and tells her a tale. The girl goes through different lands and meets the Death. In all that she is driven by her desire to discover her true dream.

fluttershy's realization of a violent life and appeal to the demiurge (0)

Fluttershy addresses the demiurge, exploring her experiences of a violent life.

Here by Herself (2019)

A five-year-old girl along with her mother and their cat walk around the winter city. Jokingly, the girl puts some of her clothes on the cat. The mother goes away and leaves the child in the city, believing that the cat is her daughter…