The First uFilmFest will take place on February 12-13, 2016 in Kyiv with the support of the Festival Platform ufest.in.ua and Italian production and distribution company Prem1ere Film.
All International and National competition films will be screened at “Kinopanorama” cinema. Audience will be able to enjoy positive and motivating films which inspire and encourage self-development and changes in society.
1815 films from countries all over the world were sent to The International competition. 16 films will compete for the main prize of the festival.
1. “All there is”, Jeroen Mourmans (The Netherlands / 2015 / 7′/ narrative)
2. “Bait and Hooks” Luka Popadić (Switzerland, Serbia / 2015 / 9’50″/ narrative)
3. “Burglar”, Bruno Scopazzo, Pablo Girola, Paula Otero (Argentina / 2015 / 1′/ narrative)
4. “Butter Brioche”, Christopher Kaufmann (Germany / 2015 / 8’12″/ narrative)
5. “Cretins”, Edu Moyano (Spain / 2015 / 14’57″/ narrative)
6. “Green”, Lucas Camps ( The Netherlands / 2015 / 9’51″/ narrative)
7. “Grown ups”, Javier Marco (Spain / 2014 / 9’50″/ narrative)
8. “Help”, Mahnaz Yazdani (Iran/ 2014 / 1’05″/ animation)
9. “In your face”, Jean-Marie Villeneuve (France / 2015 / 1’39″/ narrative)
10. “Jiri”, Alice Reily de Souza (Germany / 2015 / 1’32″/ animation)
11. “Tea for two” Mark Brennan (United Kingdom / 2015 / 15’26″/ narrative)
12. “The Blue & The Beyond”, Youri Dekker (United States / 2015 / 9’36″)
13. “The existential method”, Dany Campos (Spain / 2015 / 5’37″/ narrative)
14. “The Gift”, Gabriel Robertson (United Kingdom / 2014 / 12’48″/ narrative)
15. “The Great Wide Open”, Ciarán Dooley (Ireland / 2015 / 9’44″/ narrative)
16. “The sheep shop”, Jorn Leeuwerink (The Netherlands / 2014 / 3’17″/animation)
National competition includes 14 Ukrainian short films from 80 sent ones.
1. “Big Man”, Tan’cha Kabaeva (Ukraine / 2015 / 4’12″/ animation)
2. “Electroman”, Nikita Skomorokhov (Ukraine / 2015 / 3’56″/narrative), premiere
3. “Finger”, Yuri Karabak (Ukraine / 2015 / 6’37″/ narrative), premiere
4. “Guide”, Andriy Kuchmiy (Ukraine / 2015 / 7′/ narrative)
5. “House on the edge of the planet”, Alex Sobolev, Misha Koroteev ( Ukraine / 2015 / 32’38″/ narrative), Ukrainian premiere
6. “If you were not here”, Viktor Butok (Ukraine / 2015 / 1’15″/ animation)
7. “Island”, Nikita Tymoshchuk (Ukraine/ 2014 / 4′/ animation)
8. “Not less than 50”, Maryna Artemenko (Ukraine / 2013 / 12’07″/ narrative), premiere
9. “Nervous sun of the desert”, Katerina Kuzmenkova, Tatiana Pischana (Ukraine / 2015 / 4’57 “/ narrative), premiere
10. “Oleksiy Koval”, Andriy Pavlyuk (Ukraine / 2015 / 9’37″/ documentary), premiere
11. “People Planet”, Stanislava Doronchenko (Ukraine / 2015 / 9’3″/ documentary), premiere
12. “Poor people”, Solomia Tomashchuk (Ukraine/ 2015 / 23’48″/ narrative)
13. “Somnambulists”, Marina Hryshai (Ukraine / 2015 / 12′/ narrative)
14. “Touch of light”, Maria Maga (Ukraine / 2015 / 7’37 “/ documentary), premiere
There are 7 Ukrainian premieres in National competition and one of them will be Ukrainian short film “The House on the edge of the planet, which had got an award at Los Angeles CiniFest before its first official Ukrainian premier. National and International competition winners will be chosen by professionals from film industry from Ukraine and abroad. Their names will be announced during press conference, which will take place on January 29, 2016 at 11 a.m. in Ukrainian Media Crisis Center (Kchreshchatyk 2, Ukrainian House on European square).
The official opening of the festival will take place on February 12th at 17:00. The opening film of the festival is an award-winning comedy short film “How I didn’t become a piano player”, which got Audience Award and and Special mention at “Molodist” Kyiv International film festival.
Tickets can be bought at the festival website uFilmFest (http://ufilmfest.com/uk/festival-2016-ukr/festival-schedule-ukr/), at 1001bilet.ua
(https://1001bilet.ua/2209-ufilmfest.html) or at “Kinopanorama” cinema.
Festival program:
12.02.2016
11:00-12:30 SpeedDate for national program participants
16:00-17:00 Fotocol
17:00-18:00 Opening ceremony. Opening film
18:00-19:20 International competition program. Block I
19:30-21:00 National competition program. Block I. Q&A session.
13.02.2016
10:30-12:00 Workshop from Valentina Morozova ( Ukrainian-Spanish actress, producer)
12:30-14:00 Workshop from Richard Cook for actors (talent agent, Ireland)
17:00-18:10 International competition program. Block II.
18:20-20:00 National competition program. Block II. Q&A session.
20:30-21:30 Closing ceremony. Awards.
