The International Jury considers only films in the Competition program and awards the festival's main prizes:

Waldemar Dziki
Chief Executive Officer of the Television and Radio Broadcasting company “Ukraina”, director and producer (Poland, Ukraine)

Waldemar Dziki is one of the leading and independent producers in Poland and in Ukraine he is also the director-general of the TV&Radio company “Ukrayina”. He was born on 28th of September in 1956 and by this time it is 25 years of his life devoted to the television and cinematography. Waldemar directed and produced lots of documentaries, series and theatrical performances. He is the founder of two independent film studios Dziki Film, In Desert and Wilderness. His own talent of directing he had realized in films KARTKA Z PODROZY (1985), CUDOWNE DZIECKO (1987), PIERWSZY MILION (2000). For his work in cinematography Waldemar has been awarded more than thirty prizes at various international festivals and his active civil position becomes apparent in being a member of numerous social organizations such as European Film Academy, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki Art Council, State Council of cinematography in Poland, Karol Izhykowski Film Studio.

1985 Kartka z podrozy

 

Born in 1963 in Moscow. Aleksandr Vinogradov is a Russian contemporary painter and influential artist of the international level, who once was not only unrecognized – but also not understood. Currently he works in the art-duo with Vladimir Dubosarskiy. They even graduated from the same educational establishment – Moscow State Art Institute named after Surikov. With its works this avant-garde artists’ union breaks the stereotypes of society in the world of printed images and glamorous dreams. Their cooperation began in 1994 with painting by commission, picturing Russian reality: purple jackets, jeeps and samovars... But when these images, massively replicated, ceased to have any art meaning, they re-appeared and created a paradoxical combination: from now on paintings one could see nude girls rejoicing on the background of birch trees or Stallone drawing Schwarzenegger in a circle of children. Following the requirements of socialist realism, the artists still create radically different. One can recognize the images, but their meaning is different. Pictures are still like “by commission”, but they are not. And only the irony shown by the authors is real.

 

 

 

His graduation work, DREMANO OKO (2003), has been already shown at the Cinefondation Selection of the Cannes Film Festival and at many other film enterprises. The film has received a prize as “The Best Film” at the Munich Film School Festival. Then in 2009, Vladimir Perisic shot a new film – ORDINARY PEOPLE, which is presented at the “Molodist” Film Festival in the “Eastern Express” non-competition program. Director turns to the theme of violence, which Yugoslavia has been dealing with during the whole its history and which provokes ordinary young people to the confrontation. Author explores its reasons, a problem of good and evil in war and a question of choice – on what side to be? And in this historically-political dirtiness the director has eventually managed to find a beauty of, one would think, ordinary people.

 

 

2009 Ordinary People
2003 Dremano oko

Openness of his face, delicacy of his gestures and originality of his poetic talent – all this and more – is Ivan Antonovych Malkovych born on Gutsul’shchyna in 1961.He graduated from Ivano-Frankivs’k music colledge and Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University (major in philology). First he has been incarnating his knowledge through the pedagogic practice and soon gained wider professional opportunities: worked as an editor at publishing house “Veselka” (1986-1987), “Molod’” (1987-1989), children’s magazine “Sonyashnyk” (1991-1992), editor-in-chief of TV programmes for kids on “Ukrtelefilm” (1993). At the same time Ivan Malkovych tries himself as a poet having published poetic collections “White Stone”, (1984), “The Key” (1988), “With an Angel on My Shoulder” (1997). A lot of his poems were set on music and the author himself became an organizer of the first song festival “Chervona Ruta”. Since 1992 Ivan Malkovych is a founder and successful director of the children’s publishing house “A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA”, well known among kids and grown ups all over the world.