16 screenings and 1 event at Zhovten, Budynok Kino and Ukrainian-Danish Youth House — day six of the 55th Molodist.
Why tomorrow is worth it:
- Visar Morina’s Shame and Money — Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2026.
- Filipiñana — Sundance’s Special Jury Award for Creative Vision, in the full-length competition.
- Pieter-Jan De Pue’s Mariinka — a decade of war through the eyes of young people from a frontline town.
- Yurii Illienko’s A Well for the Thirsty — banned for 22 years, now restored with the Dovzhenko Centre.
- Gugu's World — Crystal Bear and Grand Prix of Generation Kplus at the Berlinale.
Films of the day
10:45 · Even If We Are Islands (Documentary competition)
Dir. Cristina Rodríguez Paz · Buy ticket
The last lighthouse keepers: a filmmaker in crisis sets out to find them — and herself.
13:00 · Gugu's World (Teen Screen)
Dir. Allan Deberton · Buy ticket
- Football and a secret: Gugu dreams of playing soccer and hides his grandmother’s illness so his father won’t take him away.
- Crystal Bear and Grand Prix of Generation Kplus at the Berlinale; Brazil’s Oscar submission.
13:30 · Flesh & Fuel (Full-length Films)
Dir. Pierre le Gall · Buy ticket
Truckers in love: a lonely French driver meets a Polish colleague and tries to make room for love in a punishing job.
14:15 · As Light as Air (Documentary competition)
Dir. Umair Bilal · Buy ticket
A Sufi town where pilgrims and wanderers surrender together to music and trance.
15:30 · Shame and Money (Festival of Festivals)
Dir. Visar Morina · Buy ticket
- Twelve cows and a betrayal: a Kosovo family loses everything when their own brother steals the herd.
- Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2026 in World Cinema Dramatic.
15:30 · A Well for the Thirsty (Special Events)
Dir. Yurii Illienko · Buy ticket
- Restored print with the Dovzhenko Centre: Yurii Illienko’s parable about old Levko, who tends the village well and waits for his sons.
- 22 years on the shelf: Illienko’s directing debut, written by Ivan Drach, was shot in 1965, banned, and first screened only in 1987.
16:00 · Ben'Imana (Full-length Films)
Dir. Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo · Buy ticket
- After the genocide, Vénéranda works for reconciliation, until a family crisis tests her beliefs.
- Caméra d’Or and FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes 2026.
16:00 · Out There (Teen Screen, free admission)
Dir. Simon Ryninks
Wales, 1999: a 16-year-old is convinced aliens abducted her father and enlists a local UFO expert.
17:45 · Watch You Rise (Documentary competition)
Dir. Isabella Grace Cohn · Buy ticket
A camera as witness: a young filmmaker turns to her mother, her peers and herself to talk about sexual assault.
18:15 · Caity (Full-length Films)
Dir. Lindsay Calleran · Buy ticket
The family business is a haunted house: 16-year-old Caity covers for her father when he relapses.
18:15 · Filipiñana (Full-length Films)
Dir. Rafael Manuel · Buy ticket
- A lost golf club leads a 17-year-old worker at an elite club near Manila to violent truths.
- Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at Sundance 2026; also screened at the Berlinale.
19:00 · 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.
20:30 · Erratics (FORMA)
Dir. Thomas Woodroffe · Buy ticket
A filmmaker’s ghost in Patagonia: freed after a century in a glacier, Lucien Castelnau drifts through a futuristic world.
20:30 · Lemonade (Full-length Films)
Dir. Kim Bartley · Buy ticket
A second chance: after a fatal mistake, teenage Danny is mentored by the social worker who once failed him.
National Competition
11 films in two blocks
- UA2 · 12:00 (Zhovten, Anschlag Hall): Come Back, Easter Day, Don't be naughty, A Day in the Life of Tatarin, Swear to Me, On a Stringer. Buy ticket
- UA3 · 20:00 (Zhovten, Kinoman Hall): Before Dawn, Graduation 2026, Giant, I Do Not See When Shooting, HOME TV. Buy ticket
- Oleksandr Roshchyn’s On a Stringer was selected for Raindance’s Narrative Short program.
Events of the day
- 15:00 · Creative Session “The Nature of the Theatrical in Cinema and the Nature of the Cinematic in Theatre” — Speakers: Yevhen Lavrenchuk. Ukrainian-Danish Youth House, Volodymyrska str. 5B · Ukrainian. Register
