16 screenings at Zhovten — day nine, the last day of the 55th Molodist, with the winners’ screenings.
Why tomorrow is worth it:
- Rafael Manuel’s Filipiñana — Best Feature Film of Molodist’s International Competition.
- Kai Stänicke’s Trial of Hein — the Audience Award.
- Dmytro Todoriuk’s War Has No Children — winner of the Documentary Competition.
- Homecoming, Diego and Reminiscence — the best films of the National, Short and Student competitions.
- Sandra Wollner’s Everytime — top prize of Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2026.
Winners’ screenings
- 11:00 · Best Documentary Film: Dmytro Todoriuk’s War Has No Children — Zhovten, Kinoman Hall. Buy ticket
- 15:30 · Best Feature Film: Rafael Manuel’s Filipiñana — Zhovten, Kinoman Hall. Buy ticket
- 18:00 · Audience Award: Kai Stänicke’s Trial of Hein — Zhovten, Kinoman Hall. Buy ticket
- 20:30 · Best Films of Student, Short, and National Competitions: Iryna Melnychenko’s Reminiscence, Mélissa Silveira’s Diego, and Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk’s Homecoming — Zhovten, Anschlag Hall. Buy ticket
Films of the day
10:00 · The Crown Prince And The Return Of The Tyrant (Teen Screen)
Dir. Tord Danielsson · Buy ticket
A queen’s wedding to the fool is interrupted by the return of the former tyrant’s mother — a fairy-tale adventure from Sweden.
10:30 · Vesna (Ukrainian Premieres)
Dir. Rostislav Kirpičenko · Buy ticket
- Quiet resistance: in an occupied town, priest Andriy secretly returns the bodies of executed civilians to their families, though burials are forbidden.
- Premiered at Cannes 2026, where it received a standing ovation of nearly 10 minutes.
12:30 · Orange Flavored Wedding (Special Events)
Dir. Christophe Honore · Buy ticket
- Nantes, March 1978: the youngest of seven siblings is getting married — can love heal childhood wounds?
- Premiered at Cannes 2026: Christophe Honore adapts his own play Le Ciel de Nantes; the cast includes Adèle Exarchopoulos.
13:15 · Mariinka (Ukrainian Premieres)
Dir. Pieter-Jan De Pue · Buy ticket
- A decade of war through the eyes of young people from frontline Mariinka.
- Opening film of CPH:DOX 2026: Pieter-Jan De Pue shot it on 16mm over about nine years.
15:00 · Let us through, dear ancestors (Special Events)
Dir. Lav Diaz · Buy ticket
- The Philippines, 1617: a Spanish friar rules an island with an iron fist — Lav Diaz’s colonial epic.
- World premiere at Venice 2026, out of competition.
18:10 · NAZA (Festival of Festivals)
Dir. Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor · Buy ticket
- 24 rooftop interviews in Tel Aviv: soldiers and intelligence officers describe the systems behind the killing of civilians in Gaza.
- One of the most talked-about films at the Venice Film Festival.
20:00 · Everytime (Festival of Festivals)
Dir. Sandra Wollner · Buy ticket
- A year after Jessie’s death, her mother and sister take her ex-boyfriend on a trip to Tenerife.
- Top prize of Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2026.
21:00 · Gothic Is Serenity (Midnight Special)
Dir. Natalia Ilchuk · Buy ticket
Seven Ukrainian gothic bands at the Children of the Night and Nekropolis festivals — footage from 2005, edited in 2026.
National Competition
23 films in four blocks · Zhovten, Anschlag Hall
- UA1 · 12:00: Homecoming, Glass Castles, High Frequency, Fig, Where is the Ukrainians’ house?, In her arms. Buy ticket
- UA2 · 14:15: Come Back, Easter Day, Don't be naughty, A Day in the Life of Tatarin, Swear to Me, On a Stringer. Buy ticket
- UA3 · 16:30: Before Dawn, Graduation 2026, Giant, I Do Not See When Shooting, HOME TV. Buy ticket
- UA4 · 18:30: On the shield, The Foreboding, Patronymic, Inside, vortex, your_tomorrow_will_never_come.mp4. Buy ticket
- Molodist awards: Homecoming (UA1) won the Scythian Deer of the National Competition; Fig (UA1) and HOME TV (UA3) received special mentions from the jury; Swear to Me (UA2) won the National Union of Film Critics of Ukraine diploma for the best film of the competition.
- Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei’s Homecoming won the Wiz-Art 2026 Grand Prix, its National Competition and the award of the National Union of Film Critics of Ukraine.
- Oleksandr Roshchyn’s On a Stringer was selected for Raindance’s Narrative Short program.
- Mariia Ponomarova’s Patronymic was selected for the Short Cuts competition in Toronto.
