Ukrainian poetic cinema (Ukrainian: Українське поетичне кіно, romanized: Ukrayinske poetychne kino) was a cinematic and cultural movement which emerged in the mid-20th century in reaction to Soviet nationality policy.
[1] It and other art movements emerged in the Soviet cinema industry in the mid-1960s with the release of the film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.
[3] Many films of this movement were banned in the USSR due to ideological censorship, and released only in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
[4][5] The term "Ukrainian poetic cinema" is attributed to Polish movie critic Janusz Gazda, who proposed it in 1970.
[4][2] Ukrainian poetic cinema includes ten feature films made in the 1960s and 1970s.