The Ukrainian Institute continues its long-term cooperation with the festival UKRAINA! Festiwal Filmowy, the only full-scale festival of Ukrainian cinema and culture in Poland. This year, the festival presents its 7th edition. For the third year in a row, the Ukrainian Institute has become a full-fledged partner of the event to spread knowledge about modern Ukraine and Ukrainians.

The festival lasts from 21 to 29 October at the Kinoteka cinema in Warsaw and from 1 to 14 November online on the website https://vod.warszawa.pl/.

There will also be replicas of the festival called Przegląd Filmowy UKRAINA! in other cities of Poland: Wroclaw, Żywiec, Poznań, Gorzów-Wielkopolski, Białystok, Gliwice, Gdańsk, Płock, Toruń. 

There will be screenings of 54 Ukrainian films: feature films, documentaries, children’s films, as well as special selection Mariupol. 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   

Detailed program and tickets are available on the festival’s website: https://ukrainaff.com 

Screenings of Ukrainian films and public talks with the creative teams were organized by the festival programme team in cooperation with the Ukrainian Institute.