The Ukrainian Film Festival will begin in Lviv on December 13

City Council Press Office reported on this

"This year, the festival has a strong moment – it is united with Lviv's film shows, which gives the opportunity not only to pass 6 Ribbons of national icons and short films, but also immerse themselves in the process of film production, discuss with directors, actors and writers, "said the statement.

The festival will take place in the oldest cinema of Lviv, "Copernicus", present in the city since 1912. The place was chosen not by chance, because the organizers want to draw attention to the closing of the institutions communal cultures, their disappearance from the cultural palette of the city. Although these institutions are exactly relevant. For the good work of the Ministry of Culture and Municipal Administration, these cinemas should become a Mecca for the revival of Ukrainian cinema.

"Just five years ago, no one dreamed of the Ukrainian film festival – after all, Ukraine has not produced enough films for that, and now the national cinema is developing, so we have to closer, to get acquainted with the viewers who, unfortunately, do not know the product of the national cinema so far, and we need cinemas like Copernicus ", – explains the program director of the Olga Reiter Festival [19659006]. All festival film sessions will be free. Six feature films have been filmed in the last five years.

The films were selected with care, they are about different subjects, have a different social orientation and, in fact, the format The festival allows not only to read the cassette, but also to interact with the director, discuss the problem, express his opinion, report errors or slaps.

As it is said, many production studios have been established in Lviv in the last 5 years. During film events, in the format "Creative Conversation", discuss the phenomenon of small cameramen.

"We are fully aware that in the near future, the city will become a platform for the creation of a large film studio, which is why we are developing the project Lviv Film Incubator – a series of master classes, trainings and conferences that will become a platform for the creation of a film school in Lviv ", said the organizers.

The festival organizes the artistic training Wiz-Art and the Lviv Film Commission with the support of Lviv City Council and State Committee of Ukraine