The ninth edition of the Odesa International Film Festival (OIFF, 13-21 July), the premier film event in Ukraine and one of the largest in Eastern Europe, will open on Friday with the Ukrainian premiere of Benedikt Erlingsson's Cannes Critics' Week title Woman at War [+lire aussi :
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The festival's International Competition consists of 12 films from around the world, including Wolfgang Fischer's Styx [+lire aussi :
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interview : Jagoda Szelc
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interview : Babis Makridis
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interview : Constantin Popescu
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interview : Lukas Dhont
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interview : Jean-Paul Civeyrac
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interview : Roman Bondarchuk
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interview : Darya Zhuk
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In the National Competition for feature films, five titles will be vying for awards, and four of them will enjoy their world premieres at Odesa: Hero of My Time [+lire aussi :
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The European Documentary Competition includes Shevaun Mizrahi's Distant Constellation [+lire aussi :
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interview : Mark Cousins
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The non-competitive Festival of Festivals section will feature titles such as Samuel Maoz's Foxtrot [+lire aussi :
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interview : Samuel Maoz
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interview : Cédric Kahn
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interview : Sergei Loznitsa
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Q&A : Pawel Pawlikowski
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interview : Souheila Yacoub
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In collaboration with Séries Mania and the TV channel Ukraine, the Series! section will present the first two episodes of each of five upcoming TV series to the OIFF audience: Who Are You? by Anatoliy Mateshko (Ukraine), Mother Is Wrong by François Velle (France), On the Spectrum by Yuval Shafferman (Israel), The Day by Gilles Coulier and Dries Vos (Belgium), and The Oil Fund by Harald Zwart (Norway).

Finally, in the various sidebar sections, Odesa will celebrate 70 years of Israeli cinema with screenings of five movies made between 2004 and 2015, and the work of Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase, who will enjoy a retrospective. The Special Screenings programme will focus on films by Ingmar Bergman and Kira Muratova, in addition to historical epics such as Michael Kohlhaas [+lire aussi :
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interview : Arnaud des Pallières
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interview : Robert Schwentke
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