The Molodist – or Youth – Film Festival is the biggest movie event of the year in Ukraine and this year it is set to kick off on October 18 and run to October 26, 2008. The festival presents the work of many of the young moviemakers in the country and from around the world and it includes feature films, student movies, and short film debuts. There will be a non-competitive program that includes special shows, retrospectives of actors, actresses, and directors as well as a competition section that is open to a variety of different genres and movie styles.
This year’s international jury includes American actor Armand Assante, Russian actress Alla Demidova, Hungarian director Andras Fesos, Ukrainian artist and illustration Serhiy Yakutovych, Gaga Chkheyidze who is the head of the International Tbilisi Film Festival and Ukrainian television host, writer and journalist Yuriy Makarov. The festival will be presides over by this year’s honorable president is Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko. The co-heads of the board of trustees are actor Gerard Depardieu and Hares Youssef. There will be plenty of international celebrities also attending, but there has been no release of who they may be.
Tickets are available in advance and currently there are 400 films scheduled to be screened at the festival.
You can get more information on this festival by visiting molodist.com
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