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Cinema of Ukraine
No. of screens2,332 (2011)[1]
 • Per capita5.6 per 100,000 (2011)[1]
Main distributorsB And H 20.0%
Gemini Film 11.0%
Kinomania 7.0%[2]
Produced feature films (2009)[3]
Fictional5
Animated-
Documentary-
Number of admissions (2011)[4]
Total14,995,200
National films448,400 (3.0%)
Gross box office (2011)[4]
TotalUAH 345 million
National filmsUAH 4.62 million (1.3%)

Ukraine has had an influence on the history of the cinema. Prominent Ukrainian directors include Oleksandr Dovzhenko and Serhiy Paradzhanov. Dovzhenko is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers,[5][6] as well as being a pioneer of Soviet montage theory and founding Dovzhenko Film Studios. Paradzhanov was an Armenian film director and artist who made significant contributions to Ukrainian, Armenian and Georgian cinema; he invented his own cinematic style, Ukrainian poetic cinema,[6] which was totally out of step with the guiding principles of socialist realism.

Other important directors include Kira Muratova, Larysa Shepitko, Serhiy Bondarchuk, Leonid Bykov, Yuriy Illienko, Leonid Osyka, Ihor Podolchak and Maryna Vroda. Many Ukrainian actors have achieved international fame and critical success, including Vira Kholodna, Bohdan Stupka, Milla Jovovich, Olga Kurylenko, Renata Lytvynova, and Mila Kunis.

Despite a history of important and successful productions, the industry has often been characterised by a debate about its identity and the level of Russian and European influence.[7] Ukrainian producers are active in international co-productions, while Ukrainian actors, directors and crew feature regularly in Russian (and formerly Soviet) films. Successful films have been based on Ukrainian people, stories or events, including Battleship Potemkin, Man with a Movie Camera, and Everything Is Illuminated.

The Ukrainian State Film Agency owns National Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Centre, film copying laboratory and archive, and takes part in hosting of the Odessa International Film Festival. Another festival, Molodist in Kyiv, is the only FIAPF accredited International Film Festival held in Ukraine; the competition program has sections for student films, first short film, and first full feature films from all over the world. It is held annually in October.

History of the cinema in Ukraine

Kyiv movie theatre.

On the territory of Odessa film studio there is a Museum of the Cinema, in which you can find out about many interesting facts on the history of the cinema in general and history of Ukrainian cinema as a part. Here you can find historic materials, from the invention of cinema, to the postmodern, digital and avant garde.

Films of Ukrainian SSR by ticket sales

Ukrainian title English title Year Tickets sold (millions)
НП – Надзвичайна пригода Extraordinary Accident 1959 47.5
У бій ідуть лише «старі» Only Old Men Are Going to Battle 1973 44.3
Вдалечінь від батьківщини Far from the Motherland 1960 42.0
Доля Марини Marina's Destiny 1954 37.9
Подвиг розвідника Secret Agent 1947 22.73

Government and civil bodies concerned

is administrated by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Association of Cinematographers.

Film studios

Central entrance to Dovzhenko Film Studios.

State owned

Privately owned

  • Animagrad (Kyiv)
  • Film Service Illuminator
  • Film.UA [9] (Kyiv)
  • Fresh Production
  • Halychyna-Film Film Studio (Lviv)
  • Interfilm Production Studio
  • Kinofabryka
  • Linked Films
  • Odessa Animation Studio (Odesa)
  • Panama Grand Prix (Kyiv)
  • Patriot Film
  • Pronto Film (Kyiv)
  • Star Media
  • Yalta-Film Film Studio[10] (Yalta)

Film distribution

B&H Film Distribution Company is a major Ukrainian film distributor; it is the local distributor of films by Walt Disney Pictures, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment (Columbia Pictures).[11]

Ukrainian Film Distribution (formerly Gemini Ukraine) is the local distributor of films by 20th Century Fox (Fox Searchlight Pictures, Blue Sky Studios).[11]

Kinomania is the local distributor of films by Warner Brothers (New Line Cinema).[11]

Short films, festival winners and art house are mostly disrtibuted by Arthouse traffic.[11]

Festivals

Odessa Film Festival Grand Prix
  • Molodist,[12] Kyiv International Film Festival, held in Kyiv (1970-)
  • Kyiv International Film Festival,[13] held in Kyiv (2009-)
  • Kyiv International Short Film Festival,[14] held in Kyiv (2012-)
  • Kinolev, held in Lviv (2006-)
  • Odessa International Film Festival,[15] held in Odesa (2010-)
  • Animation Film Festival "Krok",[16] (1987) organized by the Ukrainian Association of Cinematographers and takes place in Ukraine and Russia
  • Pokrov,[17] international festival of Christian Orthodox cinema, held in Kyiv (2003-)
  • Vidkryta Nich (Open Night),[18] festival of Ukrainian debut short films, held in Kyiv (1997-)
  • Kharkiv Siren Film Festival,[19] international festival of short feature films, held in Kharkiv (2008-)
  • Wiz-Art,[20] International Short Film Festival, held in Lviv (2008-)
  • VAU-Fest,[21] International Video Art and Short Film Festival, held in the town of Ukrainka in Kyiv oblast (2010-)
  • Kinofront,[22] festival of Ukrainian Z and indie movies (2008-)
  • Docudays UA,[23] international human rights documentary film festival, held in Kyiv with travelling program around Ukraine (2003-)
  • Contact, international documentary film festival, held in Kyiv (2005-2007)
  • Berdiansk International Film Festival "Golden Brigantine",[24] festival of cinema made in Commonwealth of Independent States and Baltic countries, held in the city of Berdiansk (2011)
  • Irpin Film Festival,[25] international noncommercial festival of alternative cinema, held in the town of Irpin (2003)
  • Golden Pektorale,[26] International Truskavets Film Festival, held in the town of Truskavets
  • Crown of Carpathians,[27] Another International Truskavets Film Festival, held in the town of Truskavets
  • Mute Nights, Odesa, International silent film festival which is held in Odesa on the third week on June.
  • Kino-Yalta, festival of producer's cinema[28] (2003) organized together with the Russian government
  • Stozhary,[29] held in Kyiv (1995-2005)
  • Sebastopol International Film Festival,[30] held in Sevastopol, Crimea (2005-2009, 2011)

Awards

Current awards

Former awards

Notable films

Main article: List of Ukrainian films
Famine-33
Firecrosser

Top awards

Award Category Film title Year Director
Palme d'Or Short Film The Cross (Cross-country) 2011 Maryna Vroda
Palme d'Or Short Film Podorozhni (Wayfarers) 2005 Ihor Strembitskyi
Jury Prize Silver Bear at Berlinale Short Film Ishov tramvai N°9 (The Tram N°9 Goes) 2003 Stepan Koval
Panorama Award of the NYFA at Berlinale Short Film Tyr (Shooting Gallery) 2001 Taras Tomenko
FIPRESCI Prize FIPRESCI Award Lebedyne Ozero - Zona (Swan Lake. The Zone) 1990 Yuriy Illienko
Award of the Youth at Cannes Film Festival Foreign Film Lebedyne Ozero - Zona (Swan Lake. The Zone) 1990 Yuriy Illienko

Top Ukrainian-language films by IMDb rating[33]

Name Year Rating Link
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1965 8.1 [2]
The Guide 2014 8.2 [3]
Gámer 2011 7.1 [4]
Brothers. The Final Confession 2013 7.9 [5]
Unforgotten Shadows 2013 6.7 [6]
Firecrosser 2011 7.3 [7]
Delirium 2013 7.5 [8]
Paradzhanov 2013 6.8 [9]
Las Meninas 2008 7.2 [10]

Actors

File:Ukrainian actors.jpg
Paul Muni, Elisabeth Bergner, Vira Kholodna, Milla Jovovich, Serhiy Bondarchuk, Bohdan Stupka, Mila Kunis, Olga Kurylenko and Eugene Hütz

Directors

Serhiy Bondarchuk, Kira Muratova, Anatole Litvak, Alexander Dovzhenko, Dziga Vertov, Sergei Parajanov, Ihor Podolchak, Yuriy Illienko, Mykhailo Illienko

See also

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Closely-related peoples

References

  1. ^ a b "Table 8: Cinema Infrastructure - Capacity". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  2. ^ "Table 6: Share of Top 3 distributors (Excel)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Table 1: Feature Film Production - Genre/Method of Shooting". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Table 11: Exhibition - Admissions & Gross Box Office (GBO)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  5. ^ Ivan Katchanovski, Zenon E. Kohut, Bohdan Y. Nebesio, Myroslav Yurkevich (2013). "Film" entry in Historical Dictionary of Ukraine. Scarecrow Press. p. 174. ISBN 9780810878471.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ a b "Capturing the Marvelous: Ukrainian poetic cinema". Film Society of Lincoln Center. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  7. ^ Shevchuk, Yuri (2014). Linguistic Strategies of Imperial Appropriation: Why Ukraine is absent from world film history. Ch. 22 of Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, ed. Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych & Maria G. Rewakowicz. Routledge. pp. 359–374. ISBN 9781317473787.
  8. ^ Website of Yalta Film Studio Template:Ru icon
  9. ^ Website of Film.UA
  10. ^ Website of Yalta-Film Template:Ru icon
  11. ^ a b c d Film distribution: who brings movies to Ukraine Template:Uk icon Cite error: The named reference "kinoprokat" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  12. ^ Official website
  13. ^ KIFF official website
  14. ^ KISFF official website
  15. ^ Official website
  16. ^ Krok official website
  17. ^ Pokrov film festival official website
  18. ^ [1]
  19. ^ Харьковская Сирень
  20. ^ Wiz Art
  21. ^ VAU-Fest
  22. ^ Kinofront
  23. ^ Docudays UA
  24. ^ BMKF official page
  25. ^ Irpin film festival official page
  26. ^ Golden Pektorale
  27. ^ Crown of Carpathians
  28. ^ Encyclopedia of Homeland Cinema Template:Ru icon
  29. ^ Stozhary film festival official page
  30. ^ Sebastopol film festival official website
  31. ^ Regulations for Molodist festival Template:Uk icon
  32. ^ Awards and Jury of OIFF Template:En icon
  33. ^ IMDb - Data as for September 2015
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