By Dmytro DESIATERYK, The Day
European Union Film Week started at Kyiv's House of Film on June 10, opening
with this season's German blockbuster Run, Lora, Run. For its director,
Tom Tykwer, Kyiv is a lucky city, for i. It was here that he made his successful
debut at the Molodist Festival receiving first prize for the best full-length
motion picture.
All told, 12 films will be shown in six days, one film from each participating
country. Many of these productions have won awards at prestigious festivals
like Belgium's Simply Friends, winner of numerous trophies at home
and in France, Austria's The Inheritors nominated for an Oscar this
year, and France's winner of last year's Cannes Festival, Western. At a
news conference on the premises, Johannes Ebert, director of the Goethe
Institute in Kyiv (one of the festival organizers), stressed that the main
criteria in choosing to organize the event and selecting films were creative
merit and innovative quality; all the films selected were made within the
past five years, mostly last year. In other words, there is every reason
to expect that the Kyiv public will appreciate this European film treat.
The more so that the organizing committee "tried to select pictures that
could attract both the film elite and regular audiences," Mr. Ebert added.
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