Ukraine to Show Five Features At The Berlinale

Ukraine is intending to present 5 movies at the Berlinale IFF (Feb. 7 to Feb. 17) and thus get ready to taking part in Cannes Festival, Mr. Andrey Khalpakhchi, Director of Ukrainian Cinema Foundation (UCF), said at press-conference held in Kyiv on Tuesday.

According to him the fest will feature a full-length movie of “At the Riverside” by Yeva Neyman and short-length movies of “The Strayman” by Valeriy Yamburgsky; “The Taxi Driver” by Roman Bondarchuk; “The Oath” by Marina Vroda; “On the Edge” by Artem Sukharyev and Nikita Ratnikov.

“I think Ukraine’s got all chances to become a true film sensation very soon now”, the director of Ukrainian FilmFoundation said confidently.

Mr. Khalpakhchi noted that there will be a stand at the Berlin Festival where those who so desire may look through the Ukrainian movie table for 2006-2008 as well as they may learn of the history and current trends of Ukraine’s cinematography development.

On February 12 within the framework of the Berlin Film Festival there will be held a grand presentation ceremony of Ukrainian cinematography whereto over 250 representatives of the international movie industry are invited, and amongst them there are actors, directors and high officials of Berlin and Germany. Minister of culture and tourism of Ukraine and the Berlin film festival management officers are also expected to attend the presentation.

According to A. Khalpakhchi, that’s going to be the first project of the FilmFoundation within the number of events scheduled for this year aimed at popularization of the domestic cinematography in Ukraine and abroad. The Festival of Ukrainian cinematography in Poland, The Week of Ukrainian cinematography in Paris, Cannes and Moscow film festivals will be the next in line.

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