Kyiv Critics Week
The international film festival created to introduce Ukrainian viewers to the best new films selected by professional Ukrainian film critics. The festival program includes films from the line-ups of year’s major world film festivals, as well as films that have had a significant impact on the history of cinema or are dedicated to prominent figures of cinema. https://kcw.com.ua/en
1 Kyiv Critics Week: 26-29.10.2017
2 Kyiv Critics Week: 26.10-01.11.2018
3 Kyiv Critics Week: 24-30.10.2019
4 Kyiv Critics Week: 22-28.10.2020
1 Kyiv Critics Week: 26-29.10.2017
2 Kyiv Critics Week: 26.10-01.11.2018
3 Kyiv Critics Week: 24-30.10.2019
4 Kyiv Critics Week: 22-28.10.2020
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- DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsNicole KidmanKirsten DunstElle FanningThe unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal.1 Kyiv Critics Week
- DirectorNiles AtallahStarsMario CáceresRodrigo LisboaClaudio RiverosIn 1860, a French lawyer dreamed of becoming the King of Patagonia. And he did just that. Or so it seems.1 Kyiv Critics Week
- DirectorSanal Kumar SasidharanStarsRajshri DeshpandeSujith KoyickalBilas Chandrahasan NairDurga, a north Indian migrant and a Keralite youth named Kabeer are running away on a midnight. The hapless Durga encounters a cross section of the society through the rest of the night.1 Kyiv Critics Week
- DirectorKantemir BalagovStarsDarya ZhovnerAtrem CipinNazir ZhukovIn the late-1990s squalid town of Nalchik, a poor young Jewish couple is kidnapped and a grievous ransom is demanded, as bitter resentments and cruel dilemmas come to light, magnifying the small community's grave predicament.1 Kyiv Critics Week
- DirectorAlice RohrwacherStarsAdriano TardioloAgnese GrazianiAlba RohrwacherAn unceasingly kind Italian peasant and his family are blatantly exploited by a tobacco baroness.2 Kyiv Critics Week: International Program
- DirectorAli AbbasiStarsEva MelanderEero MilonoffJörgen ThorssonA customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence.2 Kyiv Critics Week: International Program
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsMatt DillonBruno GanzUma ThurmanIn five episodes, failed architect and vicious sociopath Jack recounts his elaborately orchestrated murders -- each, as he views them, a towering work of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest.2 Kyiv Critics Week: International Program
- DirectorJia Zhang-keStarsTao ZhaoFan LiaoZheng XuIn an industrial city in China, a young dancer named Qiao falls in love with a mobster named Bin. When a fight breaks out between rival gangs, Qiao uses a gun to protect Bin and is sent to prison for five years.2 Kyiv Critics Week: International Program
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsPavel NovýJirí LábusNorbert LichýAmateur actors rehearsing "Pictures from the Insects' Life". The actors find themselves living out their characters' roles and hallucinating insects. "Insects", is intercut with the creative process of the film itself and interviews with the actors about their dreams.2 Kyiv Critics Week: International Program
- DirectorPanos CosmatosStarsNicolas CageAndrea RiseboroughLinus RoacheThe enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.2 Kyiv Critics Week: International Program
- DirectorGabriel AbrantesDaniel SchmidtStarsCarloto CottaCleo TavaresAnabela MoreiraA fallen soccer superstar vows to adopt a refugee child, while becoming the naive unwitting centerpiece in in a bizarre plot to Make Portugal Great Again.2 Kyiv Critics Week: International Program
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsSergei PopovOlga AntonovaGalina ZakhurdaevaIn the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher has got it, and it's not much fun.2 Kyiv Critics Week: Ukrainian Program (retrospective)
- DirectorVladimir DenisenkoStarsAnatoliy SokolovskiyViktor MalyarevichNikolay OleynikThe story is set in a small village during the German occupation of Ukraine. When one of the local partisans kills a German officer, the occupants vow to kill the whole village if the perpetrator is not found and delivered to them.2 Kyiv Critics Week: Ukrainian Program (retrospective)
- DirectorLeonid OsykaStarsBorislav BrondukovDaniil IlchenkoYekaterina MateykThe Stone Cross (Kaminnyy khrest, 1968), based on two short stories ("The Stone Cross" and "The Thief," both published in 1900) by Galician novelist Vasyl Stefanyk.2 Kyiv Critics Week: Ukrainian Program (retrospective)
- DirectorLeonid BoykoVyacheslav KrishtofovichStarsTetyana Kryvytska Stang LundAleksandr LazarevAnzhelika NevolinaTolla takes out a contract on himself and then changes his mind.2 Kyiv Critics Week: Ukrainian Program (retrospective)
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsSemyon SvashenkoGeorgi KhorkovAmvrosi BuchmaA soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.2 Kyiv Critics Week: Ukrainian Program (retrospective)
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsHarriet AnderssonLars EkborgDagmar EbbesenA pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.2 Kyiv Critics Week: "Bergman 100" (retrospective)
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowGunnar BjörnstrandBengt EkerotA knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.2 Kyiv Critics Week: "Bergman 100" (retrospective)
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBibi AnderssonLiv UllmannMargaretha KrookA nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.2 Kyiv Critics Week: "Bergman 100" (retrospective)
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowLiv UllmannGertrud FridhWhile vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.2 Kyiv Critics Week: "Bergman 100" (retrospective)
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsHarriet AnderssonLiv UllmannKari SylwanWhen a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.2 Kyiv Critics Week: "Bergman 100" (retrospective)
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBertil GuvePernilla AllwinKristina AdolphsonTwo young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.2 Kyiv Critics Week: "Bergman 100" (retrospective)
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsTamara YatsenkoIrina ZayarmiukGrigory MasliukIn eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda and manipulation begin to surface in this post-truth era.2 Kyiv Critics Week: Special Sreening
*The Winner of Ukrainian Film Critics Award "Kinokolo" for the Best National Feature Film of the Year - DirectorBertrand BonelloStarsLouise LabèqueWislanda LouimatKatiana MilfortA man is brought back from the dead to work in the hell of sugar cane plantations. 55 years later, a Haitian teenager tells her friends her family secret - not suspecting that it will push one of them to commit the irreparable.3 Kyiv Critics Week: International Program
- DirectorYi'nan DiaoStarsGe HuLun-Mei GweiFan LiaoA gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam.3 Kyiv Critics Week: International Program
