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For the first time in history of Cannes film festival thanks to the support of company Nemiroff Ukraine will be represented with its own pavillion at Village International.

Press conference for the Presentation of Ukrainian cinema in Cannes has been held on Tuesday, 6 May, at 13:00 in Cinema Kyiv, Cinemateca hall with participation of:
- Andriy Khalpakhchi, director of Ukrainian Cinema Foundation
- Oleksandr Maksymchuk, head of "Ukraine 3000" fund
- Tagir Imangulov, press-secretary of Nemiroff company

The conference was opened by Andriy Khalpakhchi, who greeted all the participants on this occasion: "We have gathered here on the occasion of the opening of Ukrainian pavillion at Village International. I'd like to remind that the idea of creating Ukrainian Cinema Foundation itself has emerged during the visit to Cannes last year. This year thanks to our partners, company Nemiroff, our dream has come true. Ukrainian cinema will be presented at the largest scale ever, our catalogue of recent Ukrainian films has been expanded too, as well as amount of promo-materials. Already now cinema professionals from around the world are informed of cinema projects that will be presented at the Ukrainian pavillion, around 5000 invitations for our screenings have been sent".

Oleksandr Maksymchuk has told about the importance of the project for International Charitable Fund "Ukraine 3000" and has informed that Head of Supervisory Council of the Fund, First Lady of Ukraine, Mrs. Kateryna Yushchenko is planning as well as last year to be present at the Village International and to personally open the presentation of Ukrainian cinema in Cannes: "During the Festival Ukrainian Cinema Foundation will make a very important step and present, along with its partners, the first Ukrainian pavillion in the history of Cannes, proudly presenting contemporary Ukrainian cinema to the participants of the Festival and film market. We are grateful to all the partners of Ukrainian Cinema Foundation who help us with this".

Tagir Imangulov has expressed the honor of Nemiroff to be general partner of the presentation of Ukrainian cinema in Cannes: "We are happy for strategic cooperation between Nemiroff company and Ukrainian Cinema Foundation. In April this year heads of organizations have signed a long-term co-operation agreement, within the framework of which a sum of $1.000.000 has been forseen for financing the events for popularization of Ukrainian cinema in the world".

At the end of the conference the virtual tour of Ukrainian pavillion has been shown on the big screen as well as presentation of promo-production of the Ukrainian presentation.

Last year Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist and company Nemiroff have started the tradition of presenting national cinema in Cannes and for the first time held the reception-presentation at Croisette. This year the initiative has been supported by the Ukrainian Cinema Foundation and such full-scaled participation of our country in the work of film market and organizing own pavillion is logical step for further promotion of national cinema at international film festivals.

The plan of activities of the Ukrainian Cinema Foundation within the framework of the Cannes film festival will include:

- Cinema screenings of 6 full-feature films produced in 2008: CASTING by Oleksandr Shapiro, ILLUSION OF FEAR by Oleksandr Kiriyenko, SAPPHO by Robert Crombie, BOHDAN-ZYNOVII KHMEL'NYTS'KYI by Mykola Mashchenko, AN AWESOME TALE by Roman Shirman, VLADYKA ANDREY by Oles Yanchuk.

- Daily events-presentations dedicated namely to: Anniversary of Dovzhenko Film Studio, Odesa Film Studio, Yalta Film, new film projects (DAU by Ilya Hrzhanovski, MYKYTA KOZHUMYAKA by Myhailo Kostrov, DOM S BASHENKOI by Eva Neymann  and THIRTEEN MONTHS by Illya Noyabryov), as well as to Kyiv IFF Molodist

- Grand reception-presentation with participation of high distinguished guests will once again be one of the highlights of Croisette life.

Activities of Ukrainian pavillion, which will be operating from 14 to 25 May from 10:00 to 18:00 at #102 Village International Riviera, will include distribution of the catalogues of Ukrainian cinema, promo-materials and traylers to Ukrainian films and providing international film professionals with information on the most important actors of Ukrainian film industry.

For this project Ukrainian Cinema Foundation is co-operating with some of the most acclaimed national artists: design of the pavillion and promo-production has been worked out by creative studio "Accent" headed by Pavlo Gudimov and the trailer of Ukrainian cinema foundation will be presented by Vlad Troitskiy's theater "Dakh".