LOGLINE

Bulgarian princess Olga, married against her will to the pagan Ingvar, the wild leader of the Kyiv Varangians. To save her life and ensure the future of her children she must win Ingvar’s heart and turn his rogue slavetraiding nest into a prosperous Christian kingdom. However, the Ingvar’s chieftain Sveneld gets in the way of Olga’s plans, who wants to take Ingvar’s place on the throne and in her heart.

CREDITS:
Production company: PSB FILMS (Ukraine)
Director: STEVE SAINT LEGER
Writer: VALERII PRIMOST
Producer: BELLA TERZI


LOCATIONS:
Kyiv, Ukraine — open to collaboration

SYNOPSIS:

Since childhood, the Bulgarian Tsarivna Olga has been prepared to become the wife of Emperor of the Romeia, her beloved Constantine; but he was deposed ones before of the wedding and forcibly married to another woman, and she was given in marriage to Konungr Ingvar, whose raids terrify his neighbors.

Olga moves from Constantinople, the capital of the world, to Kyiv, a nest of robbers, from where Ingvar’s Varangian druzhyna attacks the surrounding tribes and take prisoners to be sold as slaves. Olga knows nothing about Rus’, don’t speak the local languages, and is afraid of her future husband, a pagan, fierce, and savage warrior who is twice her age and already married.

No one takes Olga seriously. Neither her father, Tsar Simeon I the Great, for whom she is only a «treaty of alliance» with Ingvar. Nor her brother Peter, who mocks the failed «Empress of the Romeia». Nor Theodore, her confessor, who wants to convert pagan Rus’ to Christianity through this marriage, which will strengthen the position of the Bulgarian Patriarchate in its rivalry with the Constantinople Patriarchate. Nor Ingvar himself, who wants to become the equal of «real kings» by marrying Olga. Nor even Ingvar’s first wife, Prekrasa, who believes that she can easily eliminate «this Bulgarian girl.»

But Olga quickly makes them respect her. She opposes the slave trade, establishes her own possession, Olzhychi, which brings in more income than Ingvar’s campaigns, and attracts her husband’s Varangian druzhyna on her side. She proves that Christianity is better than paganism, not because of lofty and incomprehensible matters, but simply because people live better this way. She quickly learns to avoid assassination attempts, punish enemies and traitors, and lead people to follow.

Ingvar falls in love with this girl with the mind and character of a king. He fights bears for her, rescues her from the flames of a fire, and throws war booty at her feet. He even tries to accept her world, although this struggle tears him in half.

But Olga is loved by someone else as well. Sveneld, the wojewoda and invincible warrior, is hopelessly in love with Olga. He also protects her (even from Ingvar, if necessary) and dreams of only one thing: replacing Ingvar on the throne and in Olga’s heart. One day, in a spur of the moment, he kills Ingvar and blames it on the Drevlians.

Olga bitterly mourns her husband’s death and decides to take cruel revenge on the Drevlians. She burns their city of Iskorosten to the ground.

Suddenly Olga learns that Ingvar was killed by Sveneld. He claims that he did it out of love for her and demands her hand in marriage. But Olga prevails over Sveneld and forces him to obey. She leaves him alive: so that he can atone for his terrible crime by faithfully serving her plans; so that he can suffer in submission to the one who will never belong to him. Olga sends Sveneld as governor to the Drevlians. At this moment, ambassadors from Constantine arrive to visit Olga: he has regained his throne and asks for her hand in marriage. But she refuses. From now on, her destiny is to marry the state. She will build a great country in Rus’ for the sake of Ingvar’s memory and the future of their children.

LOGLINE

Archeology student Tanya meets a handsome, but strange guy Tonic, who turns out to be the last Jinn in the human world. Tanya’s boyfriend — a businessman who obsessed with a power — along with a black magician hunts Jinn to gain power over the World. And only Tanya’s last wish will decide the fate of the World.

CREDITS:
Production company: PSB FILMS (Ukraine)
Director: ALIA BUKHTIYAROVA (Ukraine)
Writer: ROMAN ROZENGURT (Ukraine)
Producer: BELLA TERZI ( Ukraine)


LOCATIONS:
Kyiv, Ukraine — open to collaboration

SYNOPSIS:

Tanya is a History Faculty student, she is about to go to an archaeological expedition. Tanya’s boyfriend, Maxim is a self-confident young man born with a silver spoon in his mouth who has great ambitions. He makes her proposal, but she asks him to wait with the wedding.

At first, Tanya is not very lucky in the excavations, but soon she finds a closed copper jug. It is a jug with Jinn inside. Tanya does not believe that in front of her stands a real Jinn and she jokingly calls him Tonic, Jinn Tonic. At first, Jinn also perceives Tanya and his alien world not seriously. He pushes the girl to make three wishes so that he can return home. The fact is that he was not successful in the School of Jinns — he was accused of insufficient cunning. So he stole the jug of the Supreme Jinn and went to the human world to prove his ability.

Tanya returns home with a jug. For a while, she believes that Tonic is haunting her until she is convinced that he has magical abilities. Tanya introduces Tonic to the present modern world and the guy tells her about the ancient world. They are filled with sympathy for each other.

Tanya`s Professor, he is a dark magician, finds out that Jinn is in the town. He manages to lure Tanya to his home and take away the jug. Tanya runs away, Tonic saves her from the chase. Maxim also finds out about Jinn and tries to reconcile with Tanya to capture Jinn for his purposes. Tanya and Tonic are getting closer to each other. Tonic likes our world more than the world of Jinnes. But after Tanya’s last wish, he will have to return to the jug. Tanya decides not to hurry up with desire.

Maxim threatens Professor and demands to give Jinn’s jug to him. Professor agrees with Maxim that after making three wishes, he will return the jug with Jinn to Professor. Maxim throws Tonic in the basement of his villa. He is refuses to make a wish, because he has agreed with some organization that he will sell Jinn to them for 10 billion dollars.

Professor, realizing that Maxim had deceived him, helps Tanya to release Tonic. With the last wish, Tanya moves herself, Tonic and wounded Professor to a safe place — where she found the jug the beginning. Maxim manages to jump into the closing portal. He threatens to shoot Tanya if Tonic does not obey him. Tonic tells Tanya that she has one wish left. The first wish was performed without magic. Tanya wishes Jinn to become human. Tonic turns into a human, but Maxim turns into Jinn. The new Jinn threatens to burn everything around and take over the world, but Tonic reminds him that even the most powerful Jinn is just a slave to a jug, and now Tonic is a jug`s owner.

A few months later: Tonic is a graduate student of archeology at Professor`s university and he is happy in marriage with his wife Tanya.

LOGLINE

The last of the great partisans, who located Hitler’s «wonder weapon», returns to the war that took away his feelings and identity, but failed to rob him of his values as a human being.

CREDITS:
Production Company: Metaphor Ltd.
Co-producers: Hila Guy, Lior Sasson
Director: Roman Shumunov
Script: Simon Shechter
DOP: Evgeny Usanov, Ronen Kruk
Production: Ronen Machlis-Balzam, Emanuel Shechter
Cast: Yaroslav Kucherenko, Lila Otpovich, Anton Karlinsky, Pavel Ivcin, Roman Lukyanov

PSB FILMS:
Executive producer: Arnold Kremenchutsky, Bella Terzi

LOCATIONS:
UKRAINE

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SYNOPSYS:

THE UNBELIEVABLE STORY OF LEONID BERNSHTEIN, A YOUNG JEWISH SOLDIER WHO ROSE TO BECOME THE LEADER AND LED THE OPERATION TO DESTROY THE SECRET FACILITY OF THE NOTORIOUS NAZI V2 BALLISTIC MISSILES.

THE FILM HAS TWO MAIN COMPONENTS – DOCUMENTARY AND FICTION. THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN THESE TWO GENRES ADDS TO THE FILM A NEW DIMENSION OF AND REALISM, A VERY IMPORTANT FACTOR FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATION THAT IS NOT ACCUSTOMED TO WATCHING HISTORICAL FILMS. WE SEE AN INTERVIEW WITH AN OLD MAN OF 95, BUT THE MOVING AND IMPORTANT PARTS OF IT ARE SHOWN BY NARRATIVE SCENES AND HISTORIC RECONSTRUCTIONS. THE CHARACTERS IN THE PLOT ARE REAL HEROES FROM LEONID’S STORIES: PARTISANS, SOLDIERS AND ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO TOOK PART IN WORLD WAR II. THE LANGUAGES IN THE FILM ARE REAL: RUSSIAN, POLISH, UKRAINIAN, GERMAN.

LOGLINE

Russian propaganda claimed that their military would be greeted with flowers in Ukraine. They were cruelly mistaken. Four fragile women-florists from the Kyiv flower shop go through an incredible ordeal of war, becoming an ironclad support for others. They choose different ways to defend the Motherland, but they have the same desire to show the aggressor that they will not be welcomed with flowers in Ukraine.

CREDITS:
Production company: PSB FILMS (Ukraine), FATT PRODUCTION (The Netherlands)
Director: ZAZA BUADZE
Writer: IVAN TIMSHYN
Producers: BELLA TERZI (Ukraine), ELWIN LOOIJE (The Netherlands)


LOCATIONS:
Kyiv, Ukraine
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

SYNOPSIS:

It is the story of four women who worked in a flower shop in Kyiv downtown before the full-scale war. Though different in age, social status, and outlook, they share a love for flowers and a desire to bring beauty.

None of them believed war would really come — Oleksandra, the shop owner, had even ordered flowers from the Netherlands for March 8. But on February 24, their world collapses, and each is pulled into her own storm.

OLEKSANDRA (51), the owner, becomes a volunteer and turns her shop into a medical hub. SOFIA (35), a florist, flees with her two children to the Netherlands, where their Dutch partners offer shelter. NIKA(23), a florist with Greek roots,  tries to evacuate her parents from occupied Mariupol. NADIIA (64), who once believed life was better in Russia, is trapped during the battle for Irpin’ and contact with her is lost.

Oleksandra’s diabetic mother needs medicine, but pharmacies are empty. Oleksandra arranges the delivery of essential drugs from Europe for both military and civilians. The first batch of medicine is brought by Max (53), a Kyiv-born man who moved to Europe many years ago. He stays and begins helping Oleksandra.

Four years ago, Nika left medical university in Mariupol, breaking with her parents to pursue floristry. Now survival and reunion matter more than old resentments. Her parents are brought out of Mariupol by Misha (28), her father’s former student and Nika’s ex-boyfriend. Their feelings flare up again.

Sofia faces refugee life, with children confused by events. Physically she is in Europe, but emotionally in Ukraine. Oleksandra urges her to settle there, as the war may last, but Sofia dreams of returning after her husband joins the army.

Oleksandra’s Dutch partners ask what to do with the pre-paid flowers. Sofia’s daughter suggests turning the flowers into medicine by holding a charity sale in the city square. Thousands of Europeans buy flowers to support Ukraine, continuing to donate even after the flowers sell out.

Oleksandra’s mother dies. After the funeral, Max looks after Oleksandra.  Overwhelmed by grief, she suddenly kisses him, and they become intimate.

Nika tells her parents that Misha and she are going to the front as medics.

In April, Russian troops withdraw from Kyiv. Oleksandra goes to Irpi’ and finds survived Nadiia. The two women embrace and cry.

Max believes he and Oleksandra have become a couple, but she insists this is “not the time.” Hurt, Max confronts her, saying that after tragically  losing someone he loved, he learned not to fear life, because it can end in a moment.

Oleksandra reopens the flower shop, keeping the volunteer hub inside. Sofia returns to Kyiv with her children, brings medicine and resumes the work she loves. Nadiia is also back to work.

In early May, Nika marries Misha. They are both in military uniforms. Nika holds a beautiful bouquet, surrounded by family and friends — Oleksandra, Sofia, Nadiia and Max among them.

Outside, Nika throws the bouquet. Freeze frame. The beautiful bouquet of flowers hangs in the air against a bright blue, almost peaceful sky.

CREDITS.

During the credits, documentary footage from the first months of the war with real women appears: women refugees with children, women volunteers, animal rescue activists, women weaving camouflage nets, women drivers, women soldiers, a nursing mother with her baby in the Kyiv metro, emergency psychologists at bombed sites, women doctors and many others.

The credits roll to a contemporary arrangement of the well-known Ukrainian folk song The Blackthorn Blooms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b4KhRvlbJI

PROMO FOR TRK UKRAINE. UKRAINIAN TV DETECTIVE SERIAL.

CREDITS

PSB Team

Director — Ivan Sautkin
DoP — Yuriy Barsuk
Executive producer — Bella Terzi
1st AD — Anastasiia Soviak-Krukovska
Production manager — Alex Golubenko
Production assistant — Anna Usova
Props master — Zhanna Kharkova
SFX — TORNADO SFX
Animal trainer — Natalia Yurchishina
Stylist — Anna Obraztsova
MUA — Nataliya Dreshpan
Bidding producer — Anna Usova

Post Production — TPH-ONE

LOCATIONS:

Ukraine

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SYNOPSYS:

EMPLOYEES OF THE NEWLY CREATED POLICE DEPARTMENT ARE INVESTIGATING CONFUSING CRIMINAL CASES. THEY ARE HELPED IN THIS BY A SPECIAL COMPUTER PROGRAM CALLED EAGLE OWL.INTRIGUE AND UNPREDICTABLE TWISTS FORCE THE HEROES TO FACE NEW CHALLENGES OF FATE EVERY DAY. THE NAMES OF HIGH-RANKING POLICE OFFICIALS ARE INCREASINGLY BEING HEARD IN THE CASES UNDERTAKEN BY FILINS SPECIALISTS. HEAD VALENTYN SMISHKO CANNOT STOP THE WORK OF A SUCCESSFUL DEPARTMENT.THE ONLY WAY OUT IS TO «OVERWHELM» THE DEPARTMENT WITH PARTICULARLY COMPLEX CASES THAT WILL NOT BE REVEALED, AND THE EXPERIMENT WILL BE CURTAILED. THE WHOLE OLD SYSTEM IS UNITED AGAINST THE EAGLE OWL DIVISION.