Odessa Film Festival to focus on Ukraine features

A total of 19 new Ukrainian projects, at various stages of production, will be presented during the festival in partnership with the Ukrainian State Film Agency including Kira Muratova’s Eternal Homecoming and the first Ukranian 3D horror movie Synevir.

10 Ukrainian projects will compete for a cash prize of $3,250 (€2,500) as part of the OIFF pitching session. These will include Stepne, the debut feature of Marina Vroda who won the Short Film Palme d’Or in Cannes, and crime comedy Pawnshop directed by Lubomyr Levitskiy.

Meanwhile as part of the Work-in-Progress section, clips from nine Ukrainian films or co-productions at the post production stage will be presented.

Pitching Session Projects

The Porcupine
UK, Serbia, Bulgaria, Roumania, Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia, Ukraine
Director: Srdjan Dragojevic

Battle For Sevastopol
Ukraine, Russia
Director: Sergey Mokritskiy

Volcano
Germany, France, Ukraine
Director: Roman Bondarchuk

Voroshylovgrad
Ukraine
Director: Yaroslav Lodygin

Kai
Ukraine
Director: Oleg Sentsov 

Wheel Of Fortune: Fairytale About Sinister
Ukraine, Russia, France
Director: Маksym Firsenko

Snow In The Carpathians
Ukraine, Germany, USA
Director: Constantin Werner

Stepne
Ukraine, France
Director: Maryna Vroda

Puppet Syndrome
Czech Republic, Switzerland, Ukraine
Director: Elena Hazanova

Markoni’s Version
Ukraine
Director: Lesia Kalynska

Works-in-Progress Projects

Strong Ivan
Ukraine
Director: Viktor Andrienko

Green Jacket
Ukraine
Director: Volodymyr Tykhyy

Bride Of Grass Snakes
Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia
Directors: Fedir Aleksandrovich, Artem Ryzhykov

The Guide
Ukraine
Director: Oles Sanin

Such Beautiful People
Ukraine
Director: Dmytro Moyseyev

Unforgetten Shadows
Ukraine
Director: Lubomyr Levitskiy

Toloka
Ukraine
Director: Mykhailo Illienko

Trumpeter
Ukraine
Director: Anatolyi Mateshko  

Fedor
Ukraine, Russia
Director: Nana Djordjadze