From November 29 to December 2, 2023, the Franco-Ukrainian festival of young cinema “MICT” will be held, one of the partners of which is the International Fund “Ukrainian-European Initiatives”.

This year, the festival celebrates its fifth anniversary and will be held for the first time in a mixed format of online and offline events. The focus of the competitive and non-competitive program of the festival is modern Ukrainian art and documentaries

short films created by young Ukrainian filmmakers. All viewers are from Ukraine and France

will be able to view the competition program of the festival online for free and take part in professional competitions master classes Films of the festival are shown in Ukrainian with French subtitles. It will be necessary to pre-register on the online platform https://mictfilmfestival.com/.

The Franco-Ukrainian Festival of Young Cinema “MICT” is an annual festival held in Ukraine and of France The goal of the festival this year is to support young Ukrainian cinematographers and their creativity, and as well as the popularization of Ukrainian cinema with further development of co-production and cultural ones relations The festival is a unique opportunity to support the development of young Ukrainian cinema time of war.

The competition program of the festival this year included 17 short films.

The winners of the festival will be chosen by a highly professional international jury headed by a prominent French

producer and cultural and social activist Fabienne Serven-Schreiber. The full composition of the jury of Franco-Ukrainian Youth Film Festival “MIST”-2023:

• Fabienne Serven-Schreiber – producer (France) – Jury Chairman;

• Hanna Schygulla – actress (Germany);

• Katya Krausova – film and television producer (Great Britain);

• Maryna Bagrii-Shakhmatova – screenwriter, editor, journalist (Ukraine);

• Lucas Englander – actor (Austria);

• Hryhoriy Gladiy – actor (Ukraine/Canada).

Also in Marseille at the Cité des Associations for connoisseurs of young Ukrainian documentaries offline events of the festival are waiting for cinema. Guests of the festival will have the opportunity to view the non-competitive program of the festival and to personally talk with the authors of the films after each of the screenings in the mode of video communication.

Get to know and take part in the charitable art project “Letters to God”.

The author of the project is a young woman Kharkiv artist Daria Titova, whose artworks are not only a kind of art therapy, but also help people to rethink the war and find the strength for further struggle. But to join charity meetings funds for the support of the Ukrainian Aero-Zedik and the direct purchase of drones for the Armed Forces of Ukraine

– Consolidated Tactical Group “Adam”, in which Ukrainian cinematographers serve.

Non-competitive program of the festival:

29.11 – Almanac of Documentary Films – “In Defense of Identity, Culture, Freedom”

– Creative Association – #Babylon’13.

• 30.11 – Special screening “Film-Event” – Documentary – “Fragile Memory”

– Director Ihor Ivanko

• 01.12 – Historical Documentary Project – “Defeats of the Empire”

– Director Ivan Tymshin.

• 02.12 – Special screening “Film-Event” – Documentary “Diary of the Bride of Christ”

– Director Marta Smerechynska.

Admission to all festival events is free.

The festival is organized by the International Association for the Development and Support of Ukrainian Culture, in partnership with Association de Développement Personnel Franco-Ukrainienne, the French Institute in Ukraine, the Embassy France in Ukraine, Alliances Françaises en Ukraine, CNC, UNIFRANCE, TorinoFilmLab | Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino’s, I Am Tomorrow International Film Festival, by the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, The State Agency of Ukraine on Film Affairs, the Ukrainian Cultural Fund, Odesa Film Office, Kulturnaya Diplomacy, Odesa Film Studio, and with the comprehensive support of the Odesa City Hall, Marseille City Hall, International Charitable Fund “Ukrainian-European Initiatives”, Charitable Fund “Doors” and All-Ukrainian Women’s Association of Ukrainian Cinemand Film Art.