Films about Vasyl Stus and Taras Shevchenko won at the Rivne International Film Festival

And the Grand Prix won a short film directed by the US.

The 4th Rivne International Film Festival "Dream City" took place in Rivne on October 20-23. In total, 50 film directors from 18 countries watched the film festival's audience and jury.

It was extremely pleasing to us, the organizers, that the program to promote national films within the framework of the film festival succeeded in embodying perfectly thanks to the support of the audience. For example, on October 22, a much larger number of viewers came to see a film by director Roman Brovko "Censored" than the cinema hall "Ukraine" could accommodate...

We are sincerely grateful to all - spectators, our volunteers, members of the jury, our partners: Ukrainian Film State Agency, Rivne City Council, Rivne Regional Executive Committee, Rivne Museum, National University Ostroh Academy, as well as information partners: Espresso TV, Rhythm TV, for their continued support over the years.

We congratulate this year's winners and wish them new victories and inspiration for future creative projects!

The results of the evaluation of the films - participants of the competition program of the 4th RIFF "Dream City" 2019:

Grand Prix

The Wind Phone, 15’, USA

National program

Full-length feature films

I prize

Censored, 100’, Ukraine

Taras. Return, 120’, Ukraine

II prize

The Eastman, 90’, Ukraine

IІI prize

The Bobot, 100’, Ukraine

Full-length documentaries

I prize

Delta, 80’, Ukraine

IІ prize

The Parts, 70’, Ukraine

Brothers in Arms, 60’, Ukraine

IІI prize

The Borderline. Hrubieszow operation, 52’, Ukraine

Short feature films

I prize

Synthetic Love, 15’ , Ukraine

II prize

The Weightlifter, 29’, Ukraine

IІI prize

Echo, 15’, Ukraine

International program

Short feature films

I prize

Aya, 24’, Tunisia

IІ prize

The Road, 15’, Iraq

IІI prize

Handarbeit – cover up, 14’, Germany

Short documentaries

I prize

Always there, 24’, Ukraine

II prize

Facade colour: blue, 23’ , Ukraine

Heavy metal, 38’, Ukraine

IІI prize

The Mentor, 11’, USA / Mexico

(Re)dress), 17’, Ukraine

Short animated films

I prize

How to cheer up loneliness, 13’, Ukraine

II prize

Love, 14’, Ukraine

A Bottle, 4’, Ukraine

IІI prize

273 days from today, 12’, Greece

Synchronicity, 4’, UK

Until it turns black, 6’, Ukraine

The competition program of the 4th Rivne International Film Festival "Dream City" was evaluated by a jury consisting of:

Oleksandr Bochko – film director, producer;

Zoya Zakharchuk – Lecturer in Cinema History and Contemporary Trends in Cinematography at Rivne State Humanities University;

Anatolii Lukyanchuk – television presenter and restaurateur;

Oleksii Zavorotnii – theater and cinema actor, screenwriter, director, honored artist of Ukraine;

Sergii Zinchuk – writer, director, musician;

Vyacheslav Barash – a film critic and photo artist.

The jury also praised the work of a director Kristen Gerweck (USA) and awarded the Grand Prix for her short film The Wind Phone: a telephone booth on a rock of the ocean brought together the stories of seven strangers; their seemingly different conversations turned out to be connected by one painful reality...