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“The Nest of the Turtledove” by Taras Tkachenko was awarded as best Ukrainian feature film at the 7th Odesa International Film Festival that took place on 15-23 July.
9-day film marathon swept over Odessa with its main results summed up on 23 July, when the winners were announced during the Closing Ceremony with a special appearance of U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt.
16 July, Odessa’s Treasure of European Film Culture – the Potyomkin Steps – gathered around 10,000 spectators for an open-air screening of the international silent film classics.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 15-23 July 2016, Odessa will for the 7th time host the International Film Festival.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Réka Bucsi is a young animation filmmaker from Hungary. Her graduation work “Symphony no.42” has a vast list of festival achievements that include entering the Academy Awards shortlist in 2014.
On 30 March Ukraine’s first agency of a kind – Lviv Film Commission was presented at the DocuDays film festival in Kyiv. Olha Reiter, its founder and director explained what the tasks, plans and first achievements of the newly established agency are.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Fourteen Ukrainian short films produced over the recent years competed for a prize within the first edition of the uFilmFest – first International Short Film Festival that took place in Kyiv on 12-13 February.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]There is definitely room for short films in Ukraine. Fourth ‘100 Films in 100 Minutes’ took place in Kyiv, as part of Kyiv International Short Film Festival (KISFF).
18 July, the 6th Odessa International Film Festival culminated with a beautiful closing ceremony, where the winners were announced. The grand Prix of the OIFF, determined by audience voting, went to Turkish film Mustang by Deniz Gamze Ergüven, while Darren Aronofsky was awarded with the Golden Duke for Lifetime Achievement.
World cinematography masterpiece, Oscar winning composer and assurance in Britain's support for Ukraine – traditional grand open-air screening took place on the historical Potemkin Steps as a part of the 6th Odessa International Film Festival.
16 July, a group of activists gathered at the Festival Palace of the 6th Odessa International Film Festival to call for releasing Oleg Sentsov illegally kept in Russia.
In the framework of the 6th Odessa International Film Festival, Ukrainian film Captum directed by Anatoliy Mateshko was premiered.