Participants
“Molodist” international film festival
40th anniversary edition (October 23-31, 2010, Kyiv, Ukraine)
«Molodist» international film festival is a biggest in Ukraine traditional film event which celebrates in 2010 its 40th anniversary. Every year we present about 250 films from all over the world but 40th edition of the festival we indicate with latin characters – «XL», which matches completely with expected program size - «eXtra Large» - a very big festival!
Promotion of Young Cinema
«Molodist» is a specialized festival aimed to support the cinema of young directors. That’s why we are looking thoroughly for works of talented youth at film festivals all over the world. That’s why we process hundreds of applications and spend our time for hundreds hours of videos. We search, we find, we help young talents to occupy a fitting place in contemporary cinema process.
Program
Festival’s competition program consists of sections of student films, first short films (fiction film, animation, documentary) and first full-feature films. Noncompetition section of the Festival traditionally presents a range of programs aimed at acquainting the audience with best works of cinematographic art from all over the world as well as works of world’s largest cinema-schools.
World standards
In 1993 FIAPF officially registered «Molodist» as a specialized International Festival, which activity completely corresponds with international standards. So, the Festival has been working according to FIAPF «Regulations for International Film Festivals» for 17 years.
Process
According to FIAPF information and to such sources as Screen, Variety and Moving Pictures – «Molodist» is one of most important film-events in Eastern Europe. We give a dynamic of development of the most important trends of a young cinema here and all over the world. In 2009 almost 250 films have been presented from more than 40 countries.
Kyiv Talent Workshop
In 2010 Molodist Talent Workshop project - a range of workshops and masterclasses from really important figures of the world cinema process – will be realized for the eighth time already. First two years we carried out this event in cooperation with famous Berlinale Talent Campus.
