Odesa International Film Festival Works in Progress Selection
The unprecedented military assault on Ukraine has been accompanied by fundamental limitations to the country’s cultural life. The Karlovy Vary festival expresses its full support for Ukrainian filmmakers and festival organizers, and will thus host the Works-in-Progress program of the 13th Odesa International Film Festival, which cannot be held there because of the war.
Focus of the section
Eight full-length film projects in the final stage of shooting or in post-production produced in Ukraine or in co-production with Ukraine, selected by the OIFF selection committee, will be presented by their creators.
OIFF WIP Selection
The main goal of the Work in progress presentation is to promote Ukrainian films in the world and local markets
and to attract the attention of international distributors and also to find the partners for future projects.
The selection committee of the OIFF selects 8 feature film projects in the final stage of shooting or in
post-production produced in Ukraine or in co-production with Ukraine. Projects should meet the international
quality standards to be demonstrated in frames of the Works in progress presentation.
OIFF WIP Selection projects will be presented on July 5th.
The presentation of each project will take up to 15 minutes.
Selected projects
You may find this year’s OIFF WIP Selection here.
The selected projects will be presented on Tuesday, July 5 at 11:00 CET in Lázně III Cinema.
One-on-one meetings with the production teams will take place in Lázně III – Blue Lounge on Tuesday, July 5 at 14:00 CET, and then also online on the FestiCiné plaftorm.
Award OIFF WIP Selection
The best OIFF WIP Selection project will receive a prize from Barrandov Studio in the amount of 10,000 euros.
OIFF WIP Jury
Pavlina Zipkova, Head of Czech Film Commission
Petr Tichy, CEO at Barandov Studio
Simone Baumann, Managing Director at German Films
Barbora Struss, Head of MIDPOINT
Alessandro Gropplero, Managing Director of When East Meets West