UKRAINA! Festiwal Filmowy
Фестиваль українського кіно
About the project
The aim of the festival is to spread knowledge about modern Ukraine and Ukrainians through film screenings and online meetings with their authors.
Project tasks
- to present the latest films of Ukrainian cinematography to the Polish audience
- to spread knowledge about modern Ukraine and Ukrainians through film screenings and online meetings with their authors
- popularization of Ukrainian cinema at professional venues and cult international events
- establishment of international institutional cooperation between Ukraine and Poland in the field of cinematography
Results of 2022
54 Ukrainian films in the festival programme, including feature films, documentaries, children’s films, as well as special selection Mariupol. In 2022, the festival held a short competition of Ukrainian films, which included 24 films based on the results of the selection of the festival’s programme department.
The professional jury awarded the main prize to Yula Deglina’s film “Homo Deus” “for the ability to speak the language of the film, empathy and a touching image of the younger generation.”
The Audience Choice Award was given to:
- Documentary film – “My Ozerna”, directed by Karina Bendkovska
- Feature film – “Slovo” House. Unfinished Novel, directed by Taras Tomenko
The Public Jury awarded “Maria” by Vladlen Odudenko “for her brutally honest approach to the universal theme of violence against women, confronting the local context of Ukrainian religiosity, as well as her skillful use of horror aesthetics.”
The film “Decision” by Katarzyna Sikorska was awarded “for considering the extremely complex and sensitive topic of surrogacy in the context of Polish-Ukrainian relations, for aesthetic and technical values and a high level of acting skills.”. The film “Free Man. Pilgrimage” by Sergii Dmytrenko received a special award from the Association of Ukrainians in Poland.
Among these Ukrainian and co-produced with Ukraine films are prize winners and participants of such film festivals as Berlinale, Sundance, Cannes, Locarno and Venice:
- 107 Mothers (Cenzorka), dir. Peter Kerekes
- A House Made of Splinters, dir. Simon Lereng Wilmont
- Butterfly Vision, directed by Maksym Nakonechnyi
- How Is Katya? directed by Christina Tynkevych
- Klondike, directed by Marina Er Horbach
- Pamfir, directed by Dmytro Suholytkyy-Sobchuk
- Reflection, directed by Valentin Vasyanovych
- Boney Piles (Terykony), directed by Taras Tomenko
Results of 2021
54 films in the festival programme. Among them are 13 full-length films:
- “Rhino”, dir. Oleh Sentsov, Ukraine/Poland/Germany, 2021
- “Blindfold”, dir. Taras Dron, Ukraine, 2020
- “Stop Zemlia”, dir.Kateryna Gornostai, Ukraine, 2021
- “Bad roads”, dir.Natalya Vorozhbit, Ukraine, 2020
- “U311 Cherkasy”, dir. Tymur Yashchenko, Ukraine/Poland, 2019
- “Rival”, dir. Marcus Lenz, Ukraine/Germany, 2020
- “I work at the cemetery”, dir. Oleksii Taranenko, Ukraine/Poland, 2021
- “This rain will never stop”, dir.Alina Gorlova, Ukraine/Latvia/Germany/Qatar, 2020
- “Ivan’s Land”, dir.Andrii Lysetskyi, Ukraine, 2020
- “Salt from Bonneville”, dir. Simon Mozgovyi, Ukraine/Poland/Georgia, 2020
- “Inner wars”, dir.Masha Kondakova, Ukraine, 2021
- “The earth is blue as an orange”, dir.Iryna Tsilyk, Ukraine/Lithuania, 2020
- “Roses. Film Cabaret”, dir. Irena Stetsenko, Ukraine, 2021
The festival featured 11 animated films from the international film festival LINOLEUM, 4 short animated films for children, the film “The White Bird Marked with Black” by Yuriy Ilyenko, as well as retrospective screenings of Kira Muratova’s film programme: “Brief Encounters”, “The Long Farewell”, “The Asthenic Syndrome”, “Eternal Return”.
Results of 2020
About 30 films in the festival programme.
Winners of the Audience Choice Competition of the Film Festival UKRAINE!:
- “The Nest of the Turtledove”, dir. Taras Tkachenko, Ukraine, 2013
- “Myth”, dir. Leonіd Kanter, Іvan Yasnіy, Ukraine, 2018
- “Homeward”, dir. Narіman Alіiev, Ukraine, 2019
7 full-length:
- “The Forgotten”, dir. Daria Onyshchenko, Ukraine/Switzerland. 2019
- “U311 Cherkasy”, dir. Tymur Yashchenko, Ukraine/Poland, 2019
- “Dedicated”, dir. Khrystyna Syvolap, Ukraine, 2020
- “Numbers”, dir. Oleh Sentsov, Akhtem Seitablaev, Ukraine/Poland/Czech Republic/France, 2019
- “Black Raven”, dir. Taras Tkachenko, Ukraine, 2019
- “The Painted Bird”, dir. Václav Marhoul, Ukraine/Czech Republic/Poland/Slovakia, 2019
- “The Earth Is Blue as an Orange”, dir. Iryna Tsilyk, Ukraine/Lithuania, 2020
5 short films were also presented:
- “Desaturated”, dir. Marina Stepanska, Ukraine, 2019
- “In our synagogue”, dir. Ivan Orlenko, Ukraine, 2019
- “Circulation”, dir. Oleksіy Radinsykiy, Ukraine/Great Britain, 2020.
- “Zong”, dir. El Parvulesco, Teta Cibulynik, Svіtlana Potocyka, Ukraine, 2020
- “The Second Front. Stories of LGBT Soldiers”, dir. Maksim Nakonechniy, Ukraine, 2020
The block of animated films includes the best works of the Contemporary Animation festival LINOLEUM:
- “Ukraine’s History in 5 Minutes”, dir. Sashko Danilenko, Ukraine, 2020
- “The Surrogate”, dir. Stas Santіmov, Ukraine, 2020
- “Deep Love”, dir. Mikita Lisykov, Ukraine, 2019
- “Umbilical”, dir. Oleksandr Bubnov, Ukraine, 2018
- “Reincarnation”, dir. Anna Rudіchenko, Ukraine, 2019
- “Until It Turns Black”, dir. Anastasіya Falіleieva, Ukraine, 2019
- “Elohim – Metamorphine”, dir. Hanna Rybak, Ukraine, 2020
Also, “Earth” by Oleksandr Dovzhenko was shown with musical accompaniment by the “Bastarda Trio” band.