Kyiv April 16 2007 (DOC)

							PRESS-RELEASE OCTOBER, 14, 2010
 40th jubilee Kyiv International Film Festival “Molodist” is taking place 23.10 - 31.10.2010

 Festival President of Honour: Viktor Yushchenko

 Head of Custodial Board: Head of Charity Fund “New Traditions” Serhiy Bondarchuk

 Speakers:
 General director of the IFF “Molodist” Andriy Khalpakhchi
 Program director of the IFF “Molodist” Denis Nikitenko
 Head of the State Cinematography Service under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine
 Kateryna Kopylova
 Marketing director of the MSL company Mark Katsyznyy
 Head of the press-centre of the IFF “Molodist” Dmytro Marunych

 Founders:
 Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine
 Kyiv Municipal State Administration
 National Cinematographers Association of Ukraine
 With the support of The Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation

 Title partner of the festival – Charity Fund “New Traditions”

 Title media partner of the festival – TV-channel “Ukraine”




 Sponsors:
 Grand Prix of the Festival: Operator of State Lotteries MSL
 Festival Airlines: МАУ
 Official Carrier: Ilta
 Technical partner of the festival: Adamant comapany
 Internet partner: tochka.net
 Web-support: Sleepy studio
 Art-hotel of the festival: Bakkara
 Legal support: Noogvardia
 Bank of the festival: Starokyivskyy Bank
 Official Insurance Company: «Stolytsya» IC
 Festival restaurant: «Divan»
 Drink of the festival: Persona
 Festival guide: ТОР 10
 Radio partner: Prosto radio
 Media partners: «Profil», «Glavred», «Kino-Digest», kino-teatr.ua

 Cultural Center “Cinema Theatre Kyiv” is the festival center for the last five years. This year the
 center of the festival is also Zhovten cinema theatre. Special screenings – in the cinema theatre
 “Kinopanorama”.
This year “Molodist” is celebrating its 40th anniversary. “Molodist” is the only international film festival
in Ukraine that is officially acknowledged by International Association of Film Producers (FIАPF).

Kyiv International Film Festival “Molodist” expresses gratitude to the embassies of the following
countries: France, Germany, the USA, Canada, Switzerland, Argentina, Greece, Mexico, the
Netherlands, and also cultural institutions: French cultural center, Goete Institute, Italian cultural
center.
Separate gratitude to French cultural centre and its Director Matthieu-M. Ardin for the organization and
support of the Great French program of the jubilee Film festival.

Opening film - «Cartagena» (France). Director Alain Monne. Starring Sophie Marceau and Christophe
Lambert.

Closing film – “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger” (USA-Spain). Director – Woody Allen.

Festival competition program traditionally consists of the following categories:

Student films

“Crache pas quand il pleut” (France, Gurvan Hue), “Les murs” (France, Marion Desseigne-Ravel), "You're
Out" (Austria, Max Liebich), “Hotel Chambord” (Belgium, Dorothee Baert), “Project Silence” (Brazil,
Bruno Caticha), “The Tears of the Firefly” (France, Antonie Mocquet), “Here I am” (Hungary, Szimler
Balint), "38,5" (Poland, Grzegorz Debowski), “Her Seat Is Vacant” (Ukraine, USA, Bohdana Smyrnova),
“The Obstacle” (Ukraine, Maksim Buynitski), “Bovine” (UK, William McGregor), "Efecto Dominо"
(Germany, Gabriel Gauchet), "Ich bin`s Helmut" (Germany, Nicolas Steiner), "Nitkoj tonkoj" (Russia,
Kamila Safina), "Limbo" (Spain, Alvaro Collado), "Narrow Passage" (Russia, Nikolay Sokolov), "Mi amigo
invisible" (Spain, Pablo Larcuen) among others.

First professional short films

“Chaos” (Brazil, Fabio Baldo), "Majorite opprimee" (France, Eleonore Pourriat), “The Nameless”
(France, Violaine Lecuyer), "Amsterdam" (France, Philippe Etienne), “A Lost and Found Box of Human
Sensation” (Germany, Martin Wallner, Stefan Leuchtenberg), "O Skylos" (Greece, Nikos Labot), "Uerra"
(Italy, Paolo Sassanelli), "Au Bal des Pendus" (France, Belgium, Johan Pollefoort), “He’d Never do That”
(Spain, Anartz Zuazua), "Laterarius" (Switzerland, Marina Rosset), “Only You” (Netherlands, Willem
Baptist), “Anniversary” (Spain, Nayra & Javier Sanz Fuentes), “F***ers: Arabesques: Dead Way”
(Ukraine, Ivan Timshyn), “F***ers: Arabesques: The Last Letter” (Ukraine, Yuriy Kovalyov), "F***ers:
Arabesques: Boxers" (Ukraine, Zhanna Dovhych) among others.

First full-length feature films

“My Joy” (Ukraine, Germany, Netherlands, Serhiy Loznytsya) – premiere in Ukraine, “Street Days”
(Georgia, Levan Koguashvili), "Sound of Noise" (Sweden, France , Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjarne
Nilsson), “Another Sky” (Russia, Dmitriy Mamuliya), "Lost times" (Hungary, Аron Mаtyаssy), "Tehroun"
(Iran, France, Nader T. Homayoun), "Picco" (Germany, Philip Koch), "Lincz" (Poland, Krzysztof
Lukaszewicz), “When We Leave” (Germany, Feo Aladag), "Komt een vrouw bij de dokter" (Holland,
Reinout Oerlemans), "Ano Bisiesto" (Mexico, Michael Rowe), "Mandoo" (Irak, Ebrahim Saeedi), “Juan”
(Denmark, Kasper Holten) among others.

Separate competition program – “Ukrainian cinema panorama”.

"I am a monument to myself" (Dmytro Tiazhlov), “The First Lady of the Estrangement Zone” (Olha
Samolevs'ka) “Eye” (Mykyta Lys’kov), "Save and protect" (Ruslan Batyts'kyy), "Beyond the frames"
(Maksym Ksjonda), "Green field" (Viktor Demkovskyy), "Find our boy" (Artem Ryzhykov, Fedir
Aleksandrovych), "Self-portrait" (Oleksandr Usyk), "Metamorphoses" (Ivan Popov), "Visit" (Andriy
Tymoshchuk), "Story" (Olena Khvorostenko), "Let God Judge Them" (Yevhen Khvorostyanko), "The Soul is
in the Soul" (Oleksandr Postolenko), "F***ers: Arabesques: Father" (Viktoriya Nesterenko), "She calls him
an idiot" (Volodymyr Tsyvins'kyy), "The Cake" (Alan Ostanin), “Masks. Between Life and Stage” (Serhiy
Hrek), “Motor” (Serhiy Kocherhin), "Searching the rain" (Vyacheslav Nikonorov), "Dogs of Ukrainka"
(Darya Onyshchenko), “Long Walk to Forever” (Maksim Buynitski), “Reception” (leksandr Bykov), “On
the Roadside” (Dmytro Selyuk , Svitlana Honchar), "Ballet Shoes" (Yuliya Hohol) among others.

Competition program films are to be assessed by the following judges::

Main International Jury
The panel of judges is being specified. Confirmed:
    Marc Caro – the Head of the Jury (France, direcor)
    Reiner Frimmel (Austria, director, Grand Prix winner of «Molodist-2009” for the film “La
        Pivellina”)
    Olena Yatsura (Russia, producer)
    Oleksandr Roitburd (Ukraine, artist)
    Grzegorz Kedzierski (Poland, director of photography in “Ogniem i mieczem”)

Judges of Federation International Press Cinema FIPRESCI
Judges of Federation International Cinema Clubs FICC
Judges of ecumenical organizations
Judges of “Ukrainian cinema panorama”
Judges of “Sunny Bunny”
Audience judges, all festival audience will be able to take part in assessment

Main Jury will award the following prizes:

       Grand Prix for the best film of all competition programs – the Scythian Deer and $10.000
       Best full-length feature film prize $2.500
       Best short film prize $2.500
       Best student film prize $2.500
       Yves Montand prize (best young actor/actress) EUR1.000

Prizes for the “Contribution to the Development of Cinematography” will be presented to the prominent
contemporary cinematographers in the context of the 40th jubilee Kyiv International Festival
“Molodist”.

The prize “For the Development of Ukrainian cinematography” founded by International Charity Fund
“Ukraine 3000” will be awarded during the solemn closing ceremony of the 40th jubilee Kyiv
International Festival “Molodist”.
Solemn opening and closing ceremonies will be conducted in Taras Shevchenko National Opera House of
Ukraine. Opening ceremony organizer – TV-channel “Ukraine”. It will provide the live transmission.

Non-competition Festival programs:

“20+20 Film retrospective” is dedicated to the history of “Molodist”.

“Babylon-XX” (Soviet Union, 1979, Ivan Mykolaichuk), “Happy Kukushkin” (Soviet Union, 1970,
Oleksandr Pavlovskiy), “One day in autumn” (Soviet Union, 1972, Vilen Novak), “Catafalque” (Ukraine,
1990, Valeriy Todorovskiy), “Maria” (Germany, 1993, Tom Tykver), “Just before the rain” (Macedonia,
1994, Milcho Manchevskiy), “The Life of Jesus” (France, 1997, Bruno Dumont), “Show me love”
(Sweden-Denmark, 1999, Lukas Mudisson), “Victor” (France, 1993, the first short film of Francois Ozon),
Iceberg (Belgium, 2005, Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon), “The Lives of Others” (Germany, 2006, Florian
Henckel von Donnersmarck), “Tomorrow is a Holiday” (Soviet Union, 1987, Serhiy Bukovsky), “Stop
Potapov!” (Soviet Union, 1974, Vadim Abdrashitov), "My Life in Pink" (France, Belgium, UK, 1997, Alain
Berliner), “Shallow Grave” (UK, 1994, Danny Boyle), “Late Marriage” (Israel, France, 2001, Dover
Koshashvili), etc.


Ukrainian premieres

"Columbus Quest" (Kostiantyn Shamin), "Three Stories of Galicia" (Olha Onyshko, Sara Farkhat), "The
Dnieper" (Oleksandr Shapiro), "A Million to the Sky" (Ihor Kopylov).

“Festival of festivals”.

“Biblioteque Pascal” (Hungary, Szabolcs Hajdu), “Submarine” (Denmark-Sweden, Thomas Vinterberg),
“Howl” (USA, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman), “Rozyczka” (Poland, Jan Kidawa-Blonsky), “Honey”
(Turkey, Semih Kaplanoglu), “Dharma Guns” (Francois-Jacques Ossang), "Szelid teremtes - A
Frankenstein-terv" (Hungary, Kornel Mundruczo), "Män som hatar kvinnor" (Sweden-Denmark-Germany-
Norway, Niels Arden Oplev), "El vuelco del cangrejo" (France-Portugal, Oscar Ruíz Navia), "Tuan yuan"
(China, Quanan Wang) among others.


“French cinema today”.

“Black Heaven” (Gilles Marchand), “Farewell” (Christian Carion), “Hands up” (Romain Goupil), “L'autre
Dumas” (Safy Nebbou), “White Material” (Claire Denis), “Love Crime” (Alain Corneau), "Happy Few"
(Cordier), "Lily Sometimes" (Fabienne Berthaud), "Qu’un seul tienne et les autres suivront" (Lea Fehner)
among others.


“German Boulevard”.

“The Robber” (Benjamin Heisenberg), “Vincent wants to sea” (Ralf Huettner),          "Shahada" (Burhan
Qurbani), "Jud Süss - Film ohne Gewissen" (Oskar Roehler).


“New Russian cinema”.

“Armistice” (Svetlana Proskurina), “A person who did not exist” (Ramil Salahutdinov), “Cadences” (Ivan
Sevel’iev), "Reverse motion" (Andrey Stempkovsky), "Satisfaction" (Anna Matison), "Missing Man" (Anna
Fenchenko), "Silent Souls" (Aleksey Fedorchenko), "The Brest Fortress" (Aleksandr Kott).
Film program on gay/lesbian theme “Sunny Bunny” that includes the following films this year:

“Rock Hudson – dark and handsome stranger” (Germany, Andrew Davies, Andre Schaefer), “Room in
Rome” (Spain, Julio Medem), "L'arbre et la forêt" (France, Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau), "Leo’s
Room" (Uruguay, Argentina, Enrique Buchichio), "Broderskab" (Denmark, Nicolo Donato), "Postcard to
Daddy" (Germany, Michael Stocker), "I love you, Phillip Morris!" (France, USA, John Requa, Glenn
Ficarra), "Single Man" (USA, Tom Ford), "L.A. Zombie" (USA, Bruce La Bruce).


“Oriental Express”, the best films from Central and Eastern Europe

"Na Putu" (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Austria, Germany, Croatia, Jasmila Zbanic), "Neka ostane medju nama"
(Croatia-Serbia-Slovenia, Rajko Grlić), "Medalia de onoare" (Germany, Romania, Calin Peter Netzer),
"Wojna polsko-ruska" (Poland, Xawery Zulawski), "Indigene d'Eurasie" (Lithuania, France, Russia,
Sharunas Bartas).


«Art/Life», program of documentaries about eminent artists

"Waste Land" (Brazil-UK, Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim), "Exit Through the Gift Shop" (USA,
UK, Banksy), "L'amour Fou" (France, Pierre Thoretton), "Tanzträume" (Germany, Rainer Hoffmann, Anne
Linsel), "Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll" (UK, Mat Whitecross).


“Scandinavian panorama”.

“Bad Family” (Finland, Aleksi Salmenpera), “Letters to Father Jacob” (Finland, Klaus Härö), “The
Wedding Photographer” (Sweden, Ulf Malmros), “Easy Money” (Sweden, Daniel Espinosa), “Everything
Will be Fine” (Denmark, Christoffer Boe), "Juan" (Denmark, Kaspar Holten), "Bjarnfredarson" (Iceland,
Ragnar Bragason), "Kóngavegur" (Iceland, Valdís Óskarsdóttir), "Sammen" (Norway, Armand Jordal),
"Upperdog" (Norway, Sara Johnsen).

“Eric Rohmer Film Retrospective” will be presented by French actress Béatrice Romand.

"Ma Nuit chez Maud" (1969), "Le Genou de Claire" (1970), “Pauline à la Plage” (1983), “Le Beau
marriage” (1982), “Ami de mon Amie” (1987), documentary film “Jeux de la seduction”.

“Pierre Etaix Film retrospective”.

"Rupture" (1961), "Heureux anniversaire" (1962), “The Suitor” (1963), “As Long As You’re Healthy”
(1966), “The Great Love” (1969), “Yo Yo” (1965), "Le Grand amour" (1969), “Land Of Milk And Honey”
(1971), “Happy Anniversary” (1962), “Feeling Good” (2010).

Presentation of the short films by Béatrice Romand “My mother” and “House”.

“Crossing borders”. Program is presented by Goethe Institute.

Showcase – documentary program of American films organized in cooperation with th US Embassy in
Ukraine.

"One Bridge to the Next" (Kim. A Snyder), "The Betrayal" (Ellen Kuras), "Autism: the Musical" (Tricia
Regan), "Made in L.A." (Almudena Carracedo), "Sputnik Mania" (David Hoffman), "Street Fight" (Marchall
Curry), "Burning the future: coal in America" (David Novack), "Sountrack for a revolution" (Bill
Guttentag, Dan Sturman).
Films of the French director Siegfried (“Sansa”, 2003; “Louise”, 1998) with the performance of his
musical group.

In Memorium. Evenings dedicated to the prominent cinema artists.

The festival Talent studio will traditionally work during the festival. It will provide master classes of the
first-rate world cinematographers. This year the project is organized in collaboration with Culture and
Education centre “Master Klass”.

Special Events
"Goodnight Nobody" (Switzerland, 2010, Jacqueline Zünd), "We are from Future-2" (Russia, 2009,
Aleksandr Samokhvalov, Boris Rostov), "Anatomie de l'enfer" (France, 2004, Catherine Breillat), "Dessine
toi" (France, 2010, Gilles Porte), "Sinestesia" (Switzerland, 2010, Erik Bernasconi), "Kolysanka" (Poland,
2010, Juliusz Machulski).

The second time during the festival the co-production market Boat Meeting will take place.

Molodist TV and Molodist.TXT are the strong information resources, the interactive sources of the full
and actual information about all the events of Film Festival “Molodist”. These projects are carried out
with the support of the festival internet partner - Tochka.net.

Molodist TV – the festival TV-channel of indoor and internet television. It creates the unique video
product which is very important for the festival atmosphere. The project started in 2009 during the 39 th
Kyiv International Film Festival "Molodist".

Molodist.TXT – the official festival newspaper. It has not only informative function but also gives
interpretation on the events and films. The latest news, interviews with the members of the Jury, film
reviews and the program for the day will make “Molodist.TXT” the best festival guide.

Follow the news and the schedule of press-conferences on our official web-site www.molodist.com

This year special guests of the festival are: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Sophie Marceau,
Christophe Lambert (all from France), Vladimir Menshov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Alexey Guskov,
Karen Shakhnazarov (all from Russia), Lukas Moodysson (Sweden), Gilles Porte (France) and others.