MISMFF 2022, 01: Film fest returns to the Mysterious, Magical Mountains of Mestia, Georgia Confession: I had not heard about Mestia at all till I learnt about the Mestia International Short & Mountain Film Festival (MISMFF). And it is already in its second edition! So, where is Mestia? Mestia is a municipality, a ‘townlet’ in western Georgia, in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region. Mestia, as well as the whole Svaneti, has a very old history. Distinguished by its amazing, beauti...

OIFF LAUNCHES SPECIAL DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMME “WAY TO FREEDOM” // UKRAINIAN RETROSPECTIVE OF “FORGOTTEN MASTERPIECES” Kiew, Ukraine, July 1, 2014: The Odessa International Film Festival (July 11 - 19, 2014) presents a programme of seven films documenting current changes and upheavals in civil societies. Inspired by the political situation in Ukraine, the programme not only shows the latest documentary works produced in the country, but also risks glances across bord...

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    The Program is going to present the world festivals’ best from Scandinavia in Kiev for the 4th time. Now it shares a record number of 10 films where you will find cinematic delights of any kind, starting with the history of Pirate Bay to love story of Liv Ullman and Ingmar Bergman.   “8-Ball” is a new work of Aku Louhimies who Molodist’s audience knows for his film “Naked Harbour” that he personally presented last year in Kiev. Now Lou...

Kyiv: The capital of Ukraine and the centre of the Kyiv region. It is the largest city in the country and is a political, industrial, scientific, and cultural centre. An ancient legend says, that Kyiv was founded by three brothers Kyi, Schek and Khoryv and their sister Lybid, and it was named after the eldest brother Kyi. Founded probably in the 5th century, a trading post in the land of Early East Slavs, the city gradually has flourished into a valuable center of East Slavic Civilization. ...