Vyacheslav Babenkov

Crazy Neighbours

Peace proves elusive for the Serediuks as they keep engaging in constant neighborhood rivalry and mess around with the families next door day and night.

Coffee with Cardamom

The First Days

A unique drama anthology series for our time, inspired by true events which happened in Kyiv in the first few weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. As the brutal war got underway, every second person left Kyiv. Yet every second person remained. These are their stories – variously moving, funny, sad, stark, unsettling, and uplifting.

Two Sisters

Two sisters set out from Warsaw to Kharkiv to pick up their seriously injured father.

Immigrant Holdem

An FSB agent comes to the United States to meet with CIA agents to exchange secret documents for an American passport. But he is Russian and that says it all.

Renunciation

The "Special department" only deals with complicated and resonance crimes. Vlad Romanenko, the most productive investigator of the police department, is its bright new worker. He quickly proves to his colleagues that his ideal memory, high powers of observation and ability to diverge from the letter of law for the sake of justice are great qualities of a policeman. However, Vlad has a secret that doesn't let him blend in the crew completely. To acknowledge your own problems and shortcomings is sometimes harder than to solve the most sophisticated murder. But if you want to have trust and true love, sometimes you have to reject what you thought was an inseparable part of you.

Train to Christmas

By chance, on Christmas Eve, completely different passengers with their own problems and dreams board the same train, and now they all have to arrange Christmas dinner right in the dining car. While waiting for the first star, all the passengers come together as one big Ukrainian family. And miracles begin to happen.

Don Juan from Zhashkiv

Zhenya Horobchik is a Kyiv photographer originally from Zhashkiv who is much loved by women. He is looking for a job, but accidentally finds a new love. Zhenya already has a wife and a son, and an ex-wife and a bunch of problems. He's torn between them and decides he'd rather be under a train than go on like this.

Forebodings

Slow life in a small seaside town N is suddenly disturbed by a local scandal around a man who has recently passed away. Only his wife and his friend know where he was buried, and they refuse to tell the others, seemingly in accordance to his last will. Each character seeks answers to the questions of their own, but they are searching on the outside, inquiring society and each other, so their efforts are futile. Something is about to happen.

Team Building

With layoffs looming, a team-building retreat in the Carpathians turns into a no-holds-barred competition as employees learn their jobs are on the line.

Hype

A group of filmakers decide to catch the hype on Youtube.

Petryk Pyatochkin: The Movie

A feature length, live-action adaptation of the 1984 animated made-for-TV short film How Petryk Pyatochkin Counted Little Elephants. Plot details TBA

While We Sleep

After observing a hauntingly familiar abnormal CAT scan of a 13 year old girl, radiologist Nina Evanko battles to find the source of the young girl's sleeping disorder. What she discovers is darker and stranger than she could have imagined.

Rhino

Ukraine, 1990s. Young Vova, cruel and tenacious, struggles to find his place among the ruthless members of the underworld in a city where crime and corruption reign.

The Campfire Story

1889. A family of two is making a short stop for lunch in the open air far from any settlements. They meet a stranger who has lost his horse and is now looking for a way. But it seems that he is looking for more than just the road.