Since Ukraine gained its independence, the film industry in the country has gone through several stages. Predominantly Russian-speaking at first and not immune to Soviet nostalgia, it pivoted after the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian invasion of 2014, satisfying from then on the social demand for rediscovering what had been previously lost, forgotten, or forbidden. State support for patriotic Ukrainian films formed a new film elite recognized both at home and in the international arena. A significant part of that cinematic corpus is devoted to nostalgia for the “good old days” of Galicia (Western Ukraine), which belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire for almost 150 years. This article investigates the ways in which Galician Habsburg nostalgia is visualized in contemporary Ukrainian cinema, using the examples of Viddana (2020), directed by Chrystyna Syvolap and Hutsulka Ksenia (2019), directed by Olena Demyanenko. It also traces the contours of forgotten and forbidden intellectual heritage during the Soviet Union in Ukraine. The Habsburg nostalgia is also examined as a counterbalance to the Soviet nostalgia in post-Maidan Ukraine.