Short Film Competition: Program I — Homeward | UFFB 2026

The Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin Short Film Competition showcases the most exciting emerging voices in Ukrainian cinema. Each year an international jury selects from a curated programme of short films — fiction, documentary, and animation.

Ukraine and other countries | 72 min.

Directed by: Andrii Lysetskiy

Ukrainian with English subtitles (OmeU)

What does it mean to move homeward when home has been occupied, transformed, or left behind? These films follow uncertain passages across physical, emotional, and temporal distances: a man chooses to remain in his threatened hometown; a son waits for news from his mother in occupied territory; a child attempts to return home through the mechanical body of a robotic dog; and a granddaughter reaches across decades to reconnect with a family history shaped by displacement and war. Homecoming is no longer a single movement toward a place, but a fragile negotiation between memory and absence, grief and continuity, those who remain, those who return, and those who can return only through remembrance.

Films in this programme:

- Homecoming

Roman Khimei, Yarema Malashchuk · Ukraine · 2026 · 19'

- Unavailable

Kyrylo Zemlyanyi · Ukraine · 2025 · 20'

- Apocalypse Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, and the Day After Tomorrow

Anastasiia Bonadyha · Czech Republic / Ukraine · 2025 · 20'

- My Grandmother Is a Skydiver

Polina Piddubna · Ukraine · 2025 · 13'
More info at: https://uffberlin.de/uffb2026/short-film-competition-program-1-2026/

WHERE AND WHEN?

18.10.2026, 16:30

Kino & Bar in der Königstadt
10405 Berlin