2nd Odessa International Film Festival
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The second Odessa International Film Festival
took place in Odessa
(Ukraine
) from the 15th to the 23rd of July, 2011.
71 films were screened at the festival, and the total number of audience members was tallied at over 70 thousand. Over 5 thousand guests were accredited at the festival along with over 450 journalists and other members of the press from Ukraine
, Russia
, Germany
, the United States, Romania
, Italy
and other countries. A total of 175 hotel rooms were reserved for the guests of the festival in 5 central Odessa hotels. The opening ceremonies, which were broadcast live by the Ukrainian TV channel “Inter”, were watched by over 2 million viewers. In addition, nearly 7 thousand followed the online broadcasts of the festival through the official Festival site.
14 new films from France
, the UK, Belgium
, Sweden
, Germany
, Hong Kong
, Ukraine
, Poland
, Finland
, Italy
, Bulgaria
, Russia
, Israel
, and Uruguay
were part of the competition.
The international film Jury was headed by the well-known Polish actor and rector of the Kraków Film Academy Jerzy Stuhr
, who has a bond with Odessa with his role in Juliusz Machulski’s
film “Dejа Vu” filmed 23 years ago.
A list of guests of the festival included Hollywood star John Malkovich
, directors Nikita Mihalkov, Otar Iosseliani
, Vadim Perelman
, Sergei Solovyov
, Nana Jorjadze, Yuri Kara
, Alexander Mitta
, Valery Todorovsky
, Fyodor Bondarchuk
, actors Bogdan Stupka, Maria de Medeiros
, Ada Rogovtseva, Gosha Kutsenko, Dmitriy Dyuzhev, and others. At the Opening ceremony in the Odessa Opera Theater, an honored guest of the festival – John Malkovich
, awarded a special prize, the “Crystal Crystal” to his Russian colleague Nikita Mihalkov. This prize was awarded for input into the cinematographic development of Odessa. Weeks earlier, Mihakov presented a Lifetime Achievement Award to Malkovich at the Moscow Film Festival.
The opening film of the Festival was Michel Hazanavicius’s “The Artist” which received the award for the best male role at Cannes Film Festival-2011
. The closing ceremony served as the venue for the world premiere of Alexander Gordon’s Russian film “Brothel Lights.” This film was filmed in Odessa.
The festival employed three main screening venues. “Rodina” movie theater served as the festival center and two more theaters were added for afternoon and evening screenings – “Cinema City” and “U-cinema.” The “Cinema-City” venue also became the place for the “film-market.” At the other end of the downtown area, “U-cinema” theatre at the Odessa Film Studio
once again served as the central location for the “Summer Film School.” Master classes this year were taught by many guests of the festival including John Malkovich
, Otar Iosseliani
, Vadim Perelman
, Sergei Solovyov
, Nana Jorjadze, Alexander Mitta
, Valeriy Todorovskiy
, Jerzy Stuhr
, Maria de Medeiros
, American screen-writing and directing consultant Mark Travis, and others. In the second year of the festival, a project called “Screen-writers Workshop” was added to the Summer Film School. This project included intensive and highly personalized seminars for a select group of screen-writers whose works were selected in a screen-play contest. The second Odessa Film Festival
also included two new professionally geared events – The Film-market and the pitching of film projects.
The Grand Prix of the festival went to the French Film -"Tomboy"
written and directed by Celine Sciamma. At the closing ceremony, The Golden Duke statue was accepted on behalf of the filmmaker by Sophie Cattani who played one of the lead roles in the film.
On the very last day of the festival it received the great honor of being recognized by a well-known, international journalistic association – the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
(HFPA) who are responsible for awarding the Golden Globes. Hollywood Foreign Press member Gabriel Lerman presented the festival with a sign of this recognition.
Jerzy Stuhr
– Jury chairman, actor, director, Poland
Maria de Medeiros
– actress, director, singer, Portugal
Ada Rogovtseva - actress, Ukraine
Valery Todorovsky
– Director, producer, Russia
Klaus Eder – Film critic, Germany
International Federation of Film societes Jury:
Andrey Alferov, Ukraine
João Paulo Macedo, Portugal
Raivo Olmet, Estonia
Ukrainian Laboratory Jury:
Nana Dzhordzhadze, director, Georgia
Virginie Devesa, producer, France
Sergey Chliyants, producer, Russia
Dmytro Sholudko, Head of Board of Directors, Odessa Cognac Factory (Shustov TM), Ukraine
Jury of Ukrainian critics:
Alex Pershko - editor in chief of cinema portal kino-teatr.ua, Ukraine
;
Irina Gordeychuk - film critic and television presenter, Ukraine
;
Valery Baranovsky - film expert, member of the Odessa branch of the National Union of Cinematographers, Ukraine
.
Jury of projects pitching:
Katerina Kopylova – The head of the state film agency, Ukraine
Vadim Perelman
- film director, US
Vladimir Voitenko - film critic and broadcaster, Ukraine
Simone Baumann - film expert from German Films agency, German
Vlad Ryashin - producer, Ukraine
Waldemar Dziki - producer, Poland
Valery Kodetsky - CEO of UDP company, Ukraine
, two retrospectives – “Made in Odessa” and “Ukrainian Comedies” as well as two national programs – “The French Panorama” and “New Russian cinema.”
Special Screenings included the CIS premiere of Sebastian Dehnhardt’s documentary film “Klitschko,” Lars Von Trier’s
“Melancholia
”, Wim Wenders’s
“Pina
,” and Tom Hanks’s
“Larry Crown”. Ukrainian premieres included "Le Havre
" (Dir.Aki Kaurismaki
), "Three"(Dir.Tom Tykwer
), "Life in a Day" (Dir.Kevin Macdonald), "Habemus Papam
" (Dir.Nanni Moretti
), "Distant Neighbourhood" (Dir.Sam Garbarski)
avant-garde Argentinean film “Antenna
” was screened accompanied by the Ukrainian rock group – “Еsthetic Education”.
As it was with the first Odessa Film Festival, one of the most awe-inspiring events of the week was the outdoor screening on the Potemkin Stairs
. On the 16th of July, this famous staircase became a theater for over two thousand viewers who gathered together to watch Fritz Lang’s
1927 classic “Metropolis”
with the accompaniment of a full symphonic orchestra.
On 23 July 2011, at the closing ceremony in the Opera House, the jury announced the winners of the 2rd Odessa International Film Festival:
Grand Prix of the Festival - Best film - "Tomboy"
(Dir. Céline Sciamma, Early Modern France);
Best Director - Olias Barco, author of the film "Kill me please", Belgium);
Best Acting – Keren Berger, the leading actor in the movie "2 Night" (Dir.Roi Werner), Israel);
Special Jury Mention - "Shelter" / "Podslon", (Dir. Dragomir Sholev, Kingdom of Bulgaria);
Special Jury Mention – "A Useful Life" / "La vida útil", (Dir.Federico Vejroj, Uruguay, Spain);
Audience Award – "Almanya - welcome to Germany" / "Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland", (Dir.Yasemin Samdereli, Germany).
Parallel Jury Prizes:
“Don Quixote” Prize of the International Federation of film Societies - -"Tomboy"
(Dir. Céline Sciamma, Early Modern France);
Special Prize of the International Federation of Film Societies - "Lapland Odyssey" / "Napapiirin sankarit",(Dir. Dome Karukoski, Finland, Iceland, Sweden);
A prize of national judge of film critics for the best film of festival from National Union of Ukrainian cinematography – "Kill me please", (Dir.Olias Barco, Belgium);
“Nickolay Shustov” Prize for the best Ukrainian film awarded by the “Ukrainian Laboratory” Jury-"Dog Waltz" (Dir.Taras Tkachenko, Ukraine) from the anthology "Lovers in Kiev".
Pitching Jury Prize in the amount of 25,000 UA Grivnas - "Outsider" (Dir.Vera Yakovenko, Ukraine);
Odessa International Film Festival
The Odessa International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in the middle of the July in Odessa, Ukraine. It was held for the first time July 16th – 24th, 2010.The festival is young...
took place in Odessa
Odessa
Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...
(Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
) from the 15th to the 23rd of July, 2011.
71 films were screened at the festival, and the total number of audience members was tallied at over 70 thousand. Over 5 thousand guests were accredited at the festival along with over 450 journalists and other members of the press from Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, the United States, Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
and other countries. A total of 175 hotel rooms were reserved for the guests of the festival in 5 central Odessa hotels. The opening ceremonies, which were broadcast live by the Ukrainian TV channel “Inter”, were watched by over 2 million viewers. In addition, nearly 7 thousand followed the online broadcasts of the festival through the official Festival site.
14 new films from France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, the UK, Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
, and Uruguay
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
were part of the competition.
The international film Jury was headed by the well-known Polish actor and rector of the Kraków Film Academy Jerzy Stuhr
Jerzy Stuhr
Jerzy Stuhr is one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish actors. He also works as a screenwriter, film director and drama professor...
, who has a bond with Odessa with his role in Juliusz Machulski’s
Juliusz Machulski
Juliusz Machulski is a Polish film director and screenplay writer. Son of noted actor Jan Machulski, Juliusz became notable for his comedies ridiculing the life in communist-ruled Poland of 1970s and 1980s....
film “Dejа Vu” filmed 23 years ago.
A list of guests of the festival included Hollywood star John Malkovich
John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich is an American actor, producer, director and fashion designer with his label Technobohemian. Over the last 25 years of his career, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award...
, directors Nikita Mihalkov, Otar Iosseliani
Otar Iosseliani
- Filmography :* Akvarel * Sapovnela * April / Ap'rili* Tudzhi * Falling Leaves, / Giorgobistve* Georgian Ancient Songs / Dzveli qartuli simgera...
, Vadim Perelman
Vadim Perelman
Vadim Perelman is a Ukrainian-American film director. Perelman made his feature film directorial debut in 2003 with House of Sand and Fog, following a successful career as a commercial director. The film, nominated for three Academy Awards, also marks his first screenplay credit...
, Sergei Solovyov
Sergei Solovyov
Sergei Alexandrovich Solovyov is a Russian director, producer, writer and actor. He was awarded by the Russian SFSR People's Artist title.-Biography:...
, Nana Jorjadze, Yuri Kara
Yuri Kara
Yuri Viktorovich Kara , born on 12 November 1954 in Stalino, is a Russian film director, screenwriter and producer.-Biography:Yuri Kara was born on 12 November 1954 in the Ukrainian city of Stalino, which is now called Donetsk....
, Alexander Mitta
Alexander Mitta
Alexander Naumovich Mitta is a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and actor.Mitta's birth name was Alexander Naumovich Rabinovich . He studied engineering , then worked as a cartoonist in art and humour magazines...
, Valery Todorovsky
Valery Todorovsky
Valery Petrovich Todorovsky is a Russian film director, screenwriter, TV producer.Legend has it that Todorovsky was born immediately after his mother watched Hitchcock's Psycho, in 1962. The film did not have an official release in Odessa; rather, it somehow reached Odessa Film Studio, where his...
, Fyodor Bondarchuk
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Fyodor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk is a Russian film director and actor. He is the director of the acclaimed film The 9th Company, and producer of the 2006 film Heat, where he starred as himself with his mother Irina Skobtseva....
, actors Bogdan Stupka, Maria de Medeiros
Maria de Medeiros
Maria de Medeiros Esteves Vitorino de Almeida, DamSE , better known as Maria de Medeiros , is a Portuguese actress, director, and singer who has been involved in both European and American film productions.-Personal life:...
, Ada Rogovtseva, Gosha Kutsenko, Dmitriy Dyuzhev, and others. At the Opening ceremony in the Odessa Opera Theater, an honored guest of the festival – John Malkovich
John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich is an American actor, producer, director and fashion designer with his label Technobohemian. Over the last 25 years of his career, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award...
, awarded a special prize, the “Crystal Crystal” to his Russian colleague Nikita Mihalkov. This prize was awarded for input into the cinematographic development of Odessa. Weeks earlier, Mihakov presented a Lifetime Achievement Award to Malkovich at the Moscow Film Festival.
The opening film of the Festival was Michel Hazanavicius’s “The Artist” which received the award for the best male role at Cannes Film Festival-2011
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
. The closing ceremony served as the venue for the world premiere of Alexander Gordon’s Russian film “Brothel Lights.” This film was filmed in Odessa.
The festival employed three main screening venues. “Rodina” movie theater served as the festival center and two more theaters were added for afternoon and evening screenings – “Cinema City” and “U-cinema.” The “Cinema-City” venue also became the place for the “film-market.” At the other end of the downtown area, “U-cinema” theatre at the Odessa Film Studio
Odessa Film Studio
Odessa Film Studio is a Ukrainian film studio in Odessa. It is partially owned by a government and supervised by the Department of State property fund of Ukraine together with the Ministry of Culture. Together with Dovzhenko Film Studios they are the only state-owned and major film producers in...
once again served as the central location for the “Summer Film School.” Master classes this year were taught by many guests of the festival including John Malkovich
John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich is an American actor, producer, director and fashion designer with his label Technobohemian. Over the last 25 years of his career, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award...
, Otar Iosseliani
Otar Iosseliani
- Filmography :* Akvarel * Sapovnela * April / Ap'rili* Tudzhi * Falling Leaves, / Giorgobistve* Georgian Ancient Songs / Dzveli qartuli simgera...
, Vadim Perelman
Vadim Perelman
Vadim Perelman is a Ukrainian-American film director. Perelman made his feature film directorial debut in 2003 with House of Sand and Fog, following a successful career as a commercial director. The film, nominated for three Academy Awards, also marks his first screenplay credit...
, Sergei Solovyov
Sergei Solovyov
Sergei Alexandrovich Solovyov is a Russian director, producer, writer and actor. He was awarded by the Russian SFSR People's Artist title.-Biography:...
, Nana Jorjadze, Alexander Mitta
Alexander Mitta
Alexander Naumovich Mitta is a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and actor.Mitta's birth name was Alexander Naumovich Rabinovich . He studied engineering , then worked as a cartoonist in art and humour magazines...
, Valeriy Todorovskiy
Valery Todorovsky
Valery Petrovich Todorovsky is a Russian film director, screenwriter, TV producer.Legend has it that Todorovsky was born immediately after his mother watched Hitchcock's Psycho, in 1962. The film did not have an official release in Odessa; rather, it somehow reached Odessa Film Studio, where his...
, Jerzy Stuhr
Jerzy Stuhr
Jerzy Stuhr is one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish actors. He also works as a screenwriter, film director and drama professor...
, Maria de Medeiros
Maria de Medeiros
Maria de Medeiros Esteves Vitorino de Almeida, DamSE , better known as Maria de Medeiros , is a Portuguese actress, director, and singer who has been involved in both European and American film productions.-Personal life:...
, American screen-writing and directing consultant Mark Travis, and others. In the second year of the festival, a project called “Screen-writers Workshop” was added to the Summer Film School. This project included intensive and highly personalized seminars for a select group of screen-writers whose works were selected in a screen-play contest. The second Odessa Film Festival
Odessa International Film Festival
The Odessa International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in the middle of the July in Odessa, Ukraine. It was held for the first time July 16th – 24th, 2010.The festival is young...
also included two new professionally geared events – The Film-market and the pitching of film projects.
The Grand Prix of the festival went to the French Film -"Tomboy"
Tomboy (2011 film)
Tomboy is a 2011 French film directed by Céline Sciamma. It tells the story of a 10-year-old girl who, after moving to a new place, has all her new acquaintances believe she is a boy. The film opened to critical acclaim, with many critics praising the directing as well as the acting.-Plot:Laure ,...
written and directed by Celine Sciamma. At the closing ceremony, The Golden Duke statue was accepted on behalf of the filmmaker by Sophie Cattani who played one of the lead roles in the film.
On the very last day of the festival it received the great honor of being recognized by a well-known, international journalistic association – the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Hollywood Foreign Press Association
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is an organization composed of working journalists who cover the United States film industry for a variety of outlets, including newspapers and magazines in Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America. Today, the 90 members of the HFPA represent at least 55...
(HFPA) who are responsible for awarding the Golden Globes. Hollywood Foreign Press member Gabriel Lerman presented the festival with a sign of this recognition.
Jury
Main Jury of the Odessa Film Festival :Jerzy Stuhr
Jerzy Stuhr
Jerzy Stuhr is one of the most popular, influential and versatile Polish actors. He also works as a screenwriter, film director and drama professor...
– Jury chairman, actor, director, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
Maria de Medeiros
Maria de Medeiros
Maria de Medeiros Esteves Vitorino de Almeida, DamSE , better known as Maria de Medeiros , is a Portuguese actress, director, and singer who has been involved in both European and American film productions.-Personal life:...
– actress, director, singer, Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
Ada Rogovtseva - actress, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
Valery Todorovsky
Valery Todorovsky
Valery Petrovich Todorovsky is a Russian film director, screenwriter, TV producer.Legend has it that Todorovsky was born immediately after his mother watched Hitchcock's Psycho, in 1962. The film did not have an official release in Odessa; rather, it somehow reached Odessa Film Studio, where his...
– Director, producer, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
Klaus Eder – Film critic, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
International Federation of Film societes Jury:
Andrey Alferov, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
João Paulo Macedo, Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
Raivo Olmet, Estonia
Estonia
Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
Ukrainian Laboratory Jury:
Nana Dzhordzhadze, director, Georgia
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
Virginie Devesa, producer, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
Sergey Chliyants, producer, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
Dmytro Sholudko, Head of Board of Directors, Odessa Cognac Factory (Shustov TM), Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
Jury of Ukrainian critics:
Alex Pershko - editor in chief of cinema portal kino-teatr.ua, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
;
Irina Gordeychuk - film critic and television presenter, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
;
Valery Baranovsky - film expert, member of the Odessa branch of the National Union of Cinematographers, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
.
Jury of projects pitching:
Katerina Kopylova – The head of the state film agency, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
Vadim Perelman
Vadim Perelman
Vadim Perelman is a Ukrainian-American film director. Perelman made his feature film directorial debut in 2003 with House of Sand and Fog, following a successful career as a commercial director. The film, nominated for three Academy Awards, also marks his first screenplay credit...
- film director, US
Vladimir Voitenko - film critic and broadcaster, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
Simone Baumann - film expert from German Films agency, German
Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
Vlad Ryashin - producer, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
Waldemar Dziki - producer, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
Valery Kodetsky - CEO of UDP company, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
Competitive Program
Competition program Odessa IFF 2011- TomboyTomboy (2011 film)Tomboy is a 2011 French film directed by Céline Sciamma. It tells the story of a 10-year-old girl who, after moving to a new place, has all her new acquaintances believe she is a boy. The film opened to critical acclaim, with many critics praising the directing as well as the acting.-Plot:Laure ,...
(Dir. Céline Sciamma, Early Modern France); - PorNO / Бес Пор No (Dir. Aleksander Shapiro, Ukraine);
- Simple Simon / I rymden finns inga känslor, (Dir. Andreas Öhman, Sweden);
- The practice in beauty / Упражнения в прекрасном, (Dir. Viktor Shamirov, Russia);
- WHATSOEVERLY / QUALUNQUEMENTE,(Dir. Giulio Manfredonia, Italy);
- Lapland Odyssey" / Napapiirin sankarit,(Dir. Dome Karukoski, Finland, Iceland, Sweden);
- Shelter / Podslon, (Dir. Dragomir Sholev, Kingdom of Bulgaria);
- Holy Business / Świety Interes, (Dir. Maciej Wojtyszko, Poland);
- Kill me please, (Dir.Olias Barco, Belgium);
- Love in a puff / Chi ming yu chun giu, (Dir.Pang Ho-Cheung, Hong Kong);
- Submarine, (Dir.Richard Ayoade,, United States);
- 2 Night(Dir.Roi Werner, Israel);
- A Useful Life / La vida útil, (Dir.Federico Vejroj, Uruguay, Spain);
- Almanya - welcome to Germany / Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland, (Dir.Yasemin Samdereli, Germany).
Non-competitive program
The non-competitive program included a line-up of favorites from the year’s world festival circuit – the Festival of festivals, a retrospective of Monty PythonMonty Python
Monty Python was a British surreal comedy group who created their influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series...
, two retrospectives – “Made in Odessa” and “Ukrainian Comedies” as well as two national programs – “The French Panorama” and “New Russian cinema.”
Special Screenings included the CIS premiere of Sebastian Dehnhardt’s documentary film “Klitschko,” Lars Von Trier’s
Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches, and have frequently received strongly divided critical opinion....
“Melancholia
Melancholia (film)
Melancholia is a 2011 drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kiefer Sutherland. The narrative revolves around two sisters during and shortly after the wedding party of one of them, while Earth is about to collide with an approaching rogue...
”, Wim Wenders’s
Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
“Pina
Pina (film)
Pina is a 2011 German 3D dance film directed by Wim Wenders. The film premiered Out of Competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. The trailer features the song "Lilies in the Valley" by Jun Miyake...
,” and Tom Hanks’s
Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies, gaining wide notice in 1988's Big, before achieving success as a dramatic actor in several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title...
“Larry Crown”. Ukrainian premieres included "Le Havre
Le Havre
Le Havre is a city in the Seine-Maritime department of the Haute-Normandie region in France. It is situated in north-western France, on the right bank of the mouth of the river Seine on the English Channel. Le Havre is the most populous commune in the Haute-Normandie region, although the total...
" (Dir.Aki Kaurismaki
Aki Kaurismäki
-Career:After studying Media Studies at the University of Tampere, Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki. His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment , Dostoyevsky's famous crime story set in modern-day Helsinki...
), "Three"(Dir.Tom Tykwer
Tom Tykwer
Tom Tykwer is a German film director, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run , Heaven , Perfume: The Story of a Murderer , and The International ....
), "Life in a Day" (Dir.Kevin Macdonald), "Habemus Papam
Habemus Papam
Habemus Papam! is the announcement given in Latin by the senior Cardinal Deacon upon the election of a new pope.The announcement is given from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican...
" (Dir.Nanni Moretti
Nanni Moretti
Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...
), "Distant Neighbourhood" (Dir.Sam Garbarski)
Special Events
For the first time, the festival program was enriched with a new event called “KINO_LIVE,” - a series of film-concerts held in an outdoor venue. In this new screening space – the steps of the Langeronovskiy Descent, masterworks of film were presented with live musical accompaniment. Such works included the films of Georges Melies, which were presented to the audiences by the filmmaker’s great granddaughter and great great grandson. Esteban Sapir’sEsteban Sapir
Esteban Sapir is an Argentine cinematographer, film director, and screenplay writer.He works in the cinema of Argentina.-Filmography:Directing* Picado fino aka Fine Powder...
avant-garde Argentinean film “Antenna
Antenna (film)
Antenna is a 1969 Dutch film directed by Adriaan Ditvoorst....
” was screened accompanied by the Ukrainian rock group – “Еsthetic Education”.
As it was with the first Odessa Film Festival, one of the most awe-inspiring events of the week was the outdoor screening on the Potemkin Stairs
Potemkin Stairs
The Potemkin Stairs , is a giant stairway in Odessa, Ukraine. The stairs are considered a formal entrance into the city from the direction of the sea and are the best known symbol of Odessa....
. On the 16th of July, this famous staircase became a theater for over two thousand viewers who gathered together to watch Fritz Lang’s
Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...
1927 classic “Metropolis”
Metropolis (film)
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore the social crisis between workers and...
with the accompaniment of a full symphonic orchestra.
Winners
Winners of the 2rd Odessa International Film Festival-2010On 23 July 2011, at the closing ceremony in the Opera House, the jury announced the winners of the 2rd Odessa International Film Festival:
Grand Prix of the Festival - Best film - "Tomboy"
Tomboy (2011 film)
Tomboy is a 2011 French film directed by Céline Sciamma. It tells the story of a 10-year-old girl who, after moving to a new place, has all her new acquaintances believe she is a boy. The film opened to critical acclaim, with many critics praising the directing as well as the acting.-Plot:Laure ,...
(Dir. Céline Sciamma, Early Modern France);
Best Director - Olias Barco, author of the film "Kill me please", Belgium);
Best Acting – Keren Berger, the leading actor in the movie "2 Night" (Dir.Roi Werner), Israel);
Special Jury Mention - "Shelter" / "Podslon", (Dir. Dragomir Sholev, Kingdom of Bulgaria);
Special Jury Mention – "A Useful Life" / "La vida útil", (Dir.Federico Vejroj, Uruguay, Spain);
Audience Award – "Almanya - welcome to Germany" / "Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland", (Dir.Yasemin Samdereli, Germany).
Parallel Jury Prizes:
“Don Quixote” Prize of the International Federation of film Societies - -"Tomboy"
Tomboy (2011 film)
Tomboy is a 2011 French film directed by Céline Sciamma. It tells the story of a 10-year-old girl who, after moving to a new place, has all her new acquaintances believe she is a boy. The film opened to critical acclaim, with many critics praising the directing as well as the acting.-Plot:Laure ,...
(Dir. Céline Sciamma, Early Modern France);
Special Prize of the International Federation of Film Societies - "Lapland Odyssey" / "Napapiirin sankarit",(Dir. Dome Karukoski, Finland, Iceland, Sweden);
A prize of national judge of film critics for the best film of festival from National Union of Ukrainian cinematography – "Kill me please", (Dir.Olias Barco, Belgium);
“Nickolay Shustov” Prize for the best Ukrainian film awarded by the “Ukrainian Laboratory” Jury-"Dog Waltz" (Dir.Taras Tkachenko, Ukraine) from the anthology "Lovers in Kiev".
Pitching Jury Prize in the amount of 25,000 UA Grivnas - "Outsider" (Dir.Vera Yakovenko, Ukraine);