Malevych

What stands behind the Black Square, painted in 1915 by the obsessive artist Kazimir Malevych? For his competitors, a fraud, for the Soviet regime, a secret code, for one woman, a love letter, for the people of Ukraine, a prophecy…

Country: Ukraine/Serbia/Italy/Switzerland

Written by: Daria Onyshchenko and Anna Palenchuk

Directed by: Daria Onyshchenko

Cinematography by: Oleksandr Roshchyn

Cast: Vitalii Azhnov, Aleksandr Novikov, Irma Vitovskaya, Aleksey Gorbunov and Marina Koshkina

Produced by: Maria Keil, Anna Palenchuk, Daria Onyshchenko, Miroslav Mogorovic, Paolo Maria Spina and Claudia Lehmann

Supported by: Ukrainian State Film Agency (USFA), Film Center Serbia and Ukrainian Film Academy’s Post-Production Grant Programme in partnership with Netflix

Festivals: Les Arcs Film Festival – Work in Progress
Trieste Film Festival – Work in Progress

Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist (2024)
Ukrainian theatrical release on September 11, 2025
German premiere – Cultural event of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2025)
Café Kyiv Berlin (2025)
Ukrainian Film Days NRW (2025)
Ukrainian Film Week Freiburg in Breisgau (2025)
Cinema Heidelberg, January 2026
The European Cinema Days in cooperation with the EU in Ankara (2025)
Riga – Art evening “Malevich 360°: film, exhibition, lecture” (2025)
Rome – Cultural event at the Colosseum (2025)
Film tour in Canada 2025 and film tour in the US 2025