The celebratory tenth edition of the Odesa International Film Festival (OIFF, 12-20 July) is due to take place imminently, and the premier film event in Ukraine is all set to host its international guests on the coast of the Black Sea.

Last week, at a press conference that was initially held in Kyiv and subsequently in Odesa, OIFF president Viktoriya Tigipko, general producer Julia Sinkevych, programme director Anthelme Vidaud, programme consultant Alik Shpyliuk and the head of the Ukrainian State Film Agency, Pylyp Illenko, announced the selection. More than 1,100 films were submitted to take part in the competition programmes.

The festival's International Competition consists of 12 films that will be competing for the OIFF’s Grand Prix – the Golden Duke – and other awards. The majority of the selected films are European co-productions, and among them are: Levan Akin’s And Then We Danced [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Levan Akin
intervista: Levan Gelbakhiani
scheda film] (Sweden/Georgia/France), Nariman Aliev’s Homeward [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (Ukraine), Quentin Dupieux’s Keep an Eye Out [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (France/Belgium), Paolo Zucca’s The Man Who Bought the Moon [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (Italy/Albania/Argentina), Alejandro Landes’ Monos [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (Colombia/Netherlands/Argentina/Germany/Denmark/Sweden/Uruguay/Switzerland), Shahrbanoo Sadat’s The Orphanage [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Shahrbanoo Sadat
scheda film] (Denmark/Germany/Luxembourg/France/Afghanistan) May el-Toukhy’s Queen of Hearts [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Gustav Lindh
intervista: May el-Toukhy
scheda film] (Denmark), Ernestas Jankauskas’ Sasha Was Here [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (Lithuania/Finland), Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (UK/USA) and Sameh Zoabi’s Tel Aviv on Fire [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Sameh Zoabi
scheda film] (Luxembourg/Belgium/Israel/France), along with Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia’s Initials SG (Argentina/Lebanon/USA), and Luo Hanxing’s Uncle and House (China).

The international jury includes Belgian director Peter Brosens, Hollywood actress of Ukrainian heritage Ivanna Sakhno, director of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Karel Och, Irish actor Barry Ward and Georgian writer-director-producer Nana Ekvtimishvili.

Meanwhile, the European Documentary Competition, curated by Ukrainian documentarian Serhiy Bukovsky, comprises eight films: Commander Arian [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Alba Sotorra (Spain/Germany/Syria), Hi, A.I. [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Isabella Willinger (Germany), Off Sides by Rozálie Kohoutová and Tomáš Bojar (Czech Republic), The Men's Room [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Petter Sommer and Jo Vemund Svendsen (Norway), Transnistra [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Anna Eborn (Sweden/Denmark/Belgium), Heat Singers [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Nadia Parfan
scheda film] by Nadia Parfan, For Sama [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts
scheda film] by Waad Al Khateab and Edward Watts (UK/USA), and Meeting Jim by Ece Ger (Turkey/Germany/Spain/UK).

The members of the European Documentary Competition jury are director-screenwriter-producer Bill Guttentag (USA), director, radio host and producer Sonia Kronlund (France), and the programme coordinator of Docudays UA, film producer Darya Bassel (Ukraine).