Lesia Samaieva

A romantic comedy that modernizes and reimagines one of the most famous and vivid Ukrainian national symbols, Chervona Ruta, and turns it into a new cultural phenomenon.

Vasyl Serediuk - head of the local Museum - having sent his daughter Kateryna to a french university, never expected the outcome: a month ago she informed him that she is getting married to a French heart surgeon François. Since then Vasyl’s proud statement spread throughout the whole region: “The Serediuks have made their European choice!". How huge was his surprise when he saw that the cherished European future son-in-law is a Frenchman of African origin. Organizing a wedding so that it never happens seems like a brilliant idea. But when true love stands in the way, the success of such plan is not a given.

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, Amet-khan Sultan. In May, 1944, a year after the liberation of Sevastopol, Amet-khan goes on vacation to his native town Alupka. On May 18 his eyes witness the beginning of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars.

This fairy tale tells about famous Ukrainian warriors Cossacks, about Paradise and hell, Christmas and evil forces. The Devil makes an agreement with St. Peter. If he can capture the best Cossack warrior and hold him until Christmas night, he will be able to wipe all the Cossacks off the map. The script for the movie is based on Sashko Lirnyk's story "About an old Cossack, a Christmas devil, four horns and a Cossacks".

December 31st Express was supposed to be an ordinary, quiet rail run, at least that's what conductor Mykola Ivanovych thought. However, a comically chaotic group of passengers including a runaway bride and angry accountant upset a retiring train conductor's peaceful last journey.

Four years have passed since the latest Crazy wedding, and the youngest from Seredyuk family, Zakhar, is now planning to tie the knot. Traditionally for Vasyl’s children, to start a family he chose an exotic match – gypsy baron’s daughter, beautiful Rada. Though his father has sworn not to spoil the wedding this time and does like his future daughter-in-law, a regular celebration would go against Seredyuk tradition. We’re in for a Crazy wedding yet again!

Taras Hrynchenko, a lonely elderly war veteran, decides to cut all contacts with his family for reasons unbeknownst to anyone but himself. His eight-year-old son Mirchyk accidentally comes across a pile of unopened letters that the family has been trying to send to Taras for years, yet, as they were never able to trace him, the letters never reached their intended destination. However, after a surprising mishap, the family ultimately ends up together at the Christmas table. However, things aren't as idyllic as it seems, with the many unresolved conflicts and grievances threatening to undermine an idyllic reunion.

A wealthy peasant Herasym Kalytka wants to buy his neighbor's land, but he doesn't have enough money. The unknown offers him to buy one hundred thousand fake money for five thousand. Herasym together with the best man Savka buy this money. But instead of money, they are sold blank paper. In desperation, Herasym wants to hang himself, but he is saved. Kalytka's greed almost ended in tragedy, but he continues to dream of land.

The Serediuk household in Yablunivka sits nigh empty and its proud patriarch Vasyl Serediuk decides that, to end his loneleyness, he'll have to resort to drastic measures, faking a chronic condition and inviting all of his friends and family members over for "one last mutual Christmas". But, his lies might end up costing him his family.

Tatiana, a saleswoman at a furniture store, is planning her wedding to Oleg, the ideal man in every way. But the romantic idyll is shattered by a tragic accident in which Oleg dies. Tatiana is unable to recover for several months, and to make matters worse, the driver of the car that killed her fiancé manages to avoid punishment. Tatiana faces another problem in her life: she loses her job and is left without a means of support. But she has to keep going for the sake of her 10-year-old daughter. One day, she is invited to an interview at the country's largest construction company and offered the position of head of the design department. But she has no idea that it was no coincidence that she got this job.

Love story of the student of Ivanna and Mark, the son of the governor. Mark has a brilliant future - studying in a prestigious Western university, provided a bride. His concern is choosing a car brand in which club to spend the evening with the same snobs and cynics from wealthy families. Ivanna is emotional, unpredictable, she is not indifferent to not only her future but also the future of her country. She broke into Mark's life with an orange swirl and changed him in minutes. They are not alike, they even speak different languages, but the main thing now is love.

Lucy Ermakova works as a waitress in the officer's dining room of the flight garrison. Her son Valka dreams that he had a dad, and always a pilot. Lieutenant Colonel Ivchenko requires Lucy favor, because he helped her with the work, but the woman avoids it. She likes the catcher major. Once Valka runs away to the airfield and disappears. On searches of the child raise the whole garrison…

Emily, a popular and headstrong influencer who just lost the rights to her once popular blog, goes on a vacation in search of new content, desperately wanting to reach atleast a million subscribers, choosing a resort nearby Lviv as her destination. However, unexepectedley, what she ends up coming across ends up being true love, who comes to her in the form of Max. However, keeping the flame of love burning is much harder than coming across it, because you have to sacrifice something. What will Emily choose: a platinum button or new love?

The Seredyuk family is finally at peace: a series of high-profile weddings are behind them, and the annoying neighbor Taras has disappeared from the horizon, unable to stand the family's harassment. Vasyl and Halyna can finally spend more time with each other. The harmony is disrupted by their neighbor Oksana, who has brought a new husband back from the resort, who is as it turns out Vasyl's former classmate, who had been bothering him all through his school years. From then on, a new confrontation begins.

Forty years old is a perfect age to change ones life. The hero makes a decision to quit the psychotherapist's cabinet, which he is sick and tired of and become a poet. To become a freelance artist. A trifle remained to cope with to persuade the wife.

A year after a crazy wedding, another surprise, another daughter and a new son-in-law, they become part of the most crazy adventures showing high-quality Ukrainian humor.

When it's all or nothing, when it's forever or never...