Cinema of Ukraine

Cinema of Ukraine
Number of screens 2,332 (2011)[1]
 • Per capita 5.6 per 100,000 (2011)[1]
Main distributors B And H 20.0%
Gemini Film 11.0%
Kinomania 7.0%[2]
Produced feature films (2009)[3]
Fictional 5
Animated -
Documentary -
Number of admissions (2011)[4]
Total 14,995,200
National films 448,400 (3.0%)
Gross Box Office (2011)[4]
Total UAH 345 million
National films UAH 4.62 million (1.3%)

Ukraine has had an influence on the history of the cinema. Ukrainian directors Alexander Dovzhenko, often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, as well as being a pioneer of Soviet montage theory, Dovzhenko Film Studios, and Sergei Parajanov, Armenian film director and artist who made significant contributions to Ukrainian, Armenian and Georgian cinema. He invented his own cinematic style, Ukrainian poetic cinema, which was totally out of step with the guiding principles of socialist realism.

Other important directors including Kira Muratova, Larisa Shepitko, Sergei Bondarchuk, Leonid Bykov, Yuri Ilyenko, Leonid Osyka, Ihor Podolchak with his Delirium and Maryna Vroda. Many Ukrainian actors have achieved international fame and critical success, including: Vera Kholodnaya, Bohdan Stupka, Milla Jovovich, Olga Kurylenko, Renata Litvinova, Mila Kunis.

Despite a history of important and successful productions, the industry has often been characterised by a debate about its identity and the level of Russian and European influence. Ukrainian producers are active in international co-productions and Ukrainian actors, directors and crew feature regularly in Russian (Soviet in past) films. Also successful films have been based on Ukrainian people, stories or events, including Battleship Potemkin, Man with a Movie Camera, Everything Is Illuminated. The highest-grossing film ever is Avatar with £5.2 million in 2009.

Ukrainian State Film Agency owns National Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Centre, film copying laboratory and archive, takes part in hosting of the Odessa International Film Festival, and Molodist is the only one FIAPF accredited International Film Festival held in Ukraine; competition program is devoted to student, first short and first full feature films from all over the world. Held annually in October.

Film studios

State owned

Privately owned

Film distribution

B&H Film Distribution Company is a major Ukrainian film distributor; it is the local distributor of films by Walt Disney Pictures, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment (Columbia Pictures).[8]

Ukrainian Film Distribution (formerly Gemini Ukraine) is the local distributor of films by 20th Century Fox (Fox Searchlight Pictures, Blue Sky Studios).[8]

Kinomania is the local distributor of films by Warner Brothers (New Line Cinema).[8]

Short films, festival winners and art house are mostly disrtibuted by Arthouse traffic.[8]

Festivals

Odessa Film Festival Grand Prix

Awards

Former awards

Notable films

Man with a Movie Camera
Still from Las Meninas

Top awards

Award Category Film title Year Director
Palme d'Or Short Film The Cross (Cross-country) 2011 Maryna Vroda
Palme d'Or Short Film Podorozhni (Wayfarers) 2005 Ihor Strembitskyi
Jury Prize Silver Bear at Berlinale Short Film Ischov tramwai N°9 (The Tram N°9 Goes) 2003 Stepan Koval
Panorama Award of the NYFA at Berlinale Short Film Tyr (Shooting Gallery) 2001 Taras Tomenko
FIPRESCI Prize FIPRESCI Award Lebedyne Ozero - Zona (Swan Lake. The Zone) 1990 Yuriy Illienko
Award of the Youth at Cannes Film Festival Foreign Film Lebedyne Ozero - Zona (Swan Lake. The Zone) 1990 Yuriy Illienko

Top Ukrainian-language films by IMDb rating[27]

Name Year Rating Link
Iван Сила 2013 8.6
Тiнi незабутих предкiв 2013 8.5
Звичайна справа 2012 8.1
Тіні забутих предків 1965 7.9
Ломбард 2013 7.9
Delirium 2013 7.8
Фучжоу 1993 7.7

Actors

Paul Muni, Elisabeth Bergner, Vira Kholodna, Milla Jovovich, Serhiy Bondarchuk, Bohdan Stupka, Mila Kunis, Olga Kurylenko and Eugene Hütz

Directors

Serhiy Bondarchuk, Kira Muratova, Anatole Litvak, Alexander Dovzhenko, Dziga Vertov, Sergei Parajanov, Ihor Podolchak, Yuriy Illienko, Mykhailo Illienko
Kiev movie theatre.

History of the cinema in Ukraine

On the territory of Odessa film studio there is a Museum of the Cinema, in which you can find out about many interesting facts on the history of the cinema in general and history of Ukrainian cinema as a part. Here you can find historic materials, from the invention of cinema, to the postmodern, digital and avant garde.

Government and civil bodies concerned

is administrated by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Association of Cinematographers.

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