Two Ukrainian films won awards at the Berlinale
Two Ukrainian films won awards at the 73rd annual Berlin International Film Festival. This is reported by the State Cinema of Ukraine. The short film directed by Nadiya Parfan “This Date” received a special award from the International Jury. The picture tells about life in Kyiv during a full-scale war in the country. Photo: DerzhKino The jury of the film festival compared Kinostory with the short film of the same name by French director Claude Lelouch. “The director manages to liberate the farcical short film of 1976 and turn it into something more complex, where the urgency has reasons; it is connected with war, not with a macho whim, especially since the Ukrainian soldier on leave is a woman herself,” said the jury . The Ukrainian-German documentary by Mila Zhluktenko and Daniel Asadi Faezi “Waking in Silence” also received the award. Photo: State Cinema The picture was awarded a special award for the best short film in the Generation Kplus program. The film also received 2,500 euros from the German children’s charity Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk. The film tells about the war through the eyes of Ukrainian women and children who, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, were forced to find shelter in Germany. “We were moved by the confident approach of the film. It powerfully awakens a sense of place and history, as it offers an important snapshot of the current present,” the film festival said. It will be recalled that Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman’s film “Superforce” became the central event of the Berlinale. Read also: Nominees for the Oscar 2023 have been announced: Ukraine is on the list
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