Ukrainian Sheriffs

Ukrainian Sheriffs
Directed byRoman Bondarchuk [uk]
Written byRoman Bondarchuk
Produced by
Edited by
Music byAnton Baibakov [uk]
Release dates
  • 20 November 2015 (2015-11-20) (IDFA)
  • 26 March 2016 (2016-03-26) (DocuDays UA)
Running time
88 minutes
Countries
  • Ukraine
  • Latvia
  • Germany
Languages
  • Ukrainian
  • Russian

Ukrainian Sheriffs (Ukrainian: Українські шерифи; Romanized: Ukrainski Sherify) is a 2015 Ukrainian documentary film directed by Roman Bondarchuk [uk]. 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.