The Molodist International Film Festival announced the winners: who became the laureate

Director and producer of the film "Honeymoon"/Press Service

On Saturday, November 2, the closing ceremony of the 53rd Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist was held at the House of Cinema in Kyiv. The winners in each category of the competition programs, as well as the grand prix winner, were announced.

This year, the program included 123 films from 44 countries. The Grand Prix went to the film “Honeymoon” directed by Zhanna Ozirna (Ukraine, 2024). This is stated on the website of the International Film Festival “Molodist”.

The festival's competition program consisted of four categories: TEEN SCREEN – a program for children and adolescents aged 10 to 14, National Short Film Competition– a program of Ukrainian feature, animation and documentary short works, Documentary Competition – a program of international full-length documentary debuts and International Competition – a program of both feature and documentary full-length and short films.< /p>

Laureates of the 53rd KIMCF Youth:

• Grand Prix – “Honeymoon”, directed by Zhanna Ozirna (Ukraine, 2024);

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• Best feature film of the International Competition – “Everything we imagine as light”, directed by Payal Kapadia (France, India, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, 2024);
• Special Award – “New Year, what and it didn't come”, director Bohdan Muresan (Romania, Serbia, 2024);

We were deeply moved by a film about a totalitarian system and how it tries to break and dehumanize people. There is a lot of hope in the disobedience and resistance of the heroes of this film, and that is why we would like to award the film “The New Year That Never Came” by Bohdan Muresanu with a Special Award, the members of the jury noted in their reasoning.

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• Special award – “Video camera sony dcr-trv265e digital8”, director Genyk Zayats (Ukraine, 2024);
• Best short film of the International Competition and < b>Scythian deer – “We want to live here”, directed by Alexandrina Turkan (Ukraine, 2023);
• Special award of the International Student Film Competition – “The Chaos Left Behind”, directed by Nicholas Kolius (Greece, 2023) and “Anthology of River Fish”, directed by Veera Lanpinpaa (Finland, 2024);
• Audience Award – “Silence of Oysters”, directed by Marcos Pimentel (Brazil, 2024)
• Winner of the documentary competition – “Flowers of Ukraine”, directed by Adelina Borec (Poland, 2024);
• Best films of the Teen Screen section (for cinematography and for acting) – “Little Joe and the Old Man”, directed by Patrice Sauve (Canada, 2024) and “Gina “, directed by Ulrike Kofler (Austria, 2024);
• The winner of the national short film competition – “Storks always return home”, directed by Gala Kozyutynska (Ukraine, 2023).
• The best student film of the International Competition – “Like a Butterfly “, directed by Iris Gershon Nagar (Israel, 2023) and “Basya: Three Short Stories”, directed by Mateusz Petrak (Poland, 2023)
• Special Award of the National Short Film Competition – ” Additional Scenes”, directed by Roman Himey, Yarema Malashchuk (Ukraine, 2024) and “Childhood Territory”, directed by Maryna Shkrabalyuk (Ukraine, 2024)