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When I found out that 20 Days in Mariupol had won an Oscar, I first thought of one of its characters, police officer Volodymyr. About his endless faith that this movie can change something. At great risk to his own life and the lives of his family, Volodymyr helped Mstyslav Chernov and Evgeniy Maloletka to take the footage out of […]
The movie “Mavka. The Forest Song” will be shown in Ukrainian in theaters in the USA and Canada. The animated film “Mavka. The Forest Song” will be released in Ukrainian in May on the big screens of the United States and Canada. The Ukrainian State Film Agency announced this. The first screenings of the cartoon will take place: on May […]
Film “Why Am I Alive” by Ukrainian film director Novak won a victory at Silk Road Film Awards-Cannes
The film Why Am I Alive by Ukrainian film director Villen Novak won the Best Feature Film Director nomination at the Silk Road Film Awards-Cannes. This was reported by UNN citing the press service of the Odesa Film Studio. “The film Why Am I Alive of the Odesa Film Studio (directed by Villen Novak) won the Best Feature Film Director […]
“Olga”, a feature-length fiction film directed by Elie Grappe received the SACD Award for best screenplay at the 60th Semaine de la Critique (Critics’ Week), a section of the Cannes Film Festival. Co-produced by Switzerland and France, the film tells the story of a 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast who trains in Switzerland while her thoughts are with Ukraine where Euromaidan begins. […]
This May, the feature-length documentary by Alina Gorlova “This Rain Will Never Stop” will screen in the U.S., in competition at the True/False Film Festival. The story follows a young Red Cross volunteer, Andriy Suleiman. Born to a Kurdish father and a Ukrainian mother in Syria, he fled the war with his family, and settled in Lysychansk, in eastern Ukraine. […]
“Anna”: Ukraninan short film to compete at the 2021 “Oscar” Academy Awards. Featuring interview with producer Olga Beshmelnitsyna. “Anna” a 15 minute short film directed by Dekel Berenson, an Isreaili born UK based writer and director, was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019. The campaign promoting the inclusion of the film at the OSCAR- 2021 awards in the […]
Ukrainian musical romance film “Hutsulka Ksenya” directed by Olena Demyanenko was awarded the Grand Prix at the Mt. Fuji - Atami Film Festival in Japan
Digital rights are at the center of the current edition of the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA taking place in Kyiv, Ukraine between March 22 and 30. “In 2012 a new term was coined – ‘digital rights’. Back then the Human Rights Council of the United Nations adopted a resolution stating that the same rights that people […]
On 22 September Ukraine’s Parliament passed the Law “On state support to film production in Ukraine”. A day earlier at an industry event Head of the Ukrainian State Film Agency and industry professionals spoke about the law and the new opportunities it grants for Ukrainian film production.
Every year KIEV CoProduction Meetings, which is organinized in the framework of KIEV MEDIA WEEK, provides new opportunities for the successful launch of the projects, presented at the pitching.
“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.