Ukrainian Sheriffs (2016)

Name: Ukrainian Sheriffs
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-03-26

1h 25m

Running Time

Plot.

Driving in their yellow Lada flying its own little Ukrainian flag, they travel from incident to incident – calming an angry neighbor, investigating the discovery of a body, struggling to unfold a stroller and attempting to re-integrate Vova, the freeloader who eats other people’s dogs but actually longs for a normal existence – just like everyone else here. The seasons pass until political developments reach the village by way of the TV screen, sowing separatist discord.

Where to Watch.

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Cast & Crew.

Viktor Kryvoborodko

Himself (Sheriff)

Volodymyr Rudkovskyy

Himself (Sheriff)

Viktor Marunyak

Himself (Mayor)

Roman Bondarchuk

Director / Director of Photography / Editor

Borys Peter

Sound Designer / Editor

Uldis Cekulis

Producer

Daria Averchenko

Producer

Kateryna Gornostai

Editor

Anton Baibakov

Original Music Composer

Media.

Details.

Release Date
March 26, 2016

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 25m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-05-06

Wiki.

Ukrainian Sheriffs (Ukrainian: Українські шерифи, romanized: Ukrainski Sherify) is a 2015 Ukrainian documentary film directed by Roman Bondarchuk. The film begins as a portrait of a small town which tries to meet its own policing needs but shifts when the Russo-Ukrainian War begins, depicting the war's effects in microcosm. Bondarchuk's first feature-length film, it was workshopped and developed at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam IDFAcademy and the Dok.incubator program.

The film won the IDFA Special Jury Award and the Docs Against Gravity Mayor of Gdynia Award, and was chosen by the Ukrainian Association of Cinematographers as the best domestic non-fiction film of 2016. It ranked 56th on the Ukraine film archives' list of the best films of Ukrainian cinema, and was Ukraine's official selection for foreign-language film at the US 89th Academy Awards.