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Ukrainian filmmakers received awards during the Trieste Film Festival (Italy) 

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Ukrainian filmmakers received awards during the Trieste Film Festival (Italy) 

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As part of the industrial section of the Trieste Film Festival, awards were presented to the winners of the When East Meets West co-production forum, partnered by the Ukrainian Institute. 


In particular, the film It’s Not A Full Picture by Maryna Stepanska, as a result of the presentation of projects at the development stage, received the CICLIC WEMW award (5,000 euros) from the French foundation Ciclic Centre-Val de Loire. Also, the producer of the film and the Head of the Ukrainian Institute Supervisory Board Julia Sinkevych received a scholarship from the EAVE Producers Workshop. 

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This year Ukrainian films are presented in several programmes of the Trieste Film Festival. Thus, the festival’s traditional focus programme Wild Roses, dedicated this year to Ukrainian female directors, included 7 full-length and 3 short films, which are:   

  • Outside by Ol’ha Zhurba  
  • Klondike by Maryna Er Horbac  
  • This Rain Will Never Stop by Alina Horlova 
  • When the Trees Fall by Marysja Nikitjuk, who personally presented the film  
  • Stop Zemlia by Kateryna Hornostai  
  • Home Games by Alisa Kovalenko  
  • Pryvoz by Eva Nejman  
  • Blood by Valeria Sochyvets,   
  • I did not want to make a war film by Nadia Parfan   
  • The Seventh Shift by Nataliya Ilchuk  
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As part of the industrial section of the festival, namely the co-production forum When East Meets West, Honeymoon by Zhanna Ozirnaya and It’s Not A Full Picture by Maryna Stepanska were presented. In the feature film competition, Butterfly Vision by Maksym Nakonechnyi was presented, and in the documentary competition – Fragile Memory by Igor Ivanko and The Hamlet Syndrome by Elwira Niewiera and Piotr RosoÅ‚owski. The documentary film Mariupolis 2 by Mantas Kvedaravicius and the short film Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk were shown out of competition. Also, Malevich by Daria Onyshchenko was presented in the “This is It” section.

The Trieste Film Festival is a leading Italian film festival dedicated to Central and Eastern European cinema, taking place from 21-28 January 2023. 


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