Celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, the Odesa International Film Festival (OIFF), which will run from 12-20 July, is all set to lift its curtain this Friday with the Ukrainian premiere of Nicolas Bedos’ La Belle Époque [+lee también:
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entrevista: Nicolas Bedos
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entrevista: Labina Mitevska
entrevista: Teona Strugar Mitevska
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With the International Competition and European Documentary Competition already announced (see the news), the OIFF has also confirmed its line-up for the National Competition, in which five features and ten shorts will be vying for awards. In the section for features, all of which are by first-time directors, two will enjoy their world premieres: Cherkasy by Tymur Yashchenko and Eastman by Andy Iva. They will be joined by the Karlovy Vary-awarded My Thoughts Are Silent [+lee también:
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entrevista: Yuriy Shylov
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The members of the National Competition jury are Locarno Film Festival programmer Nicholas Elliott, Polish director-screenwriter Joanna Kos-Krauze and Ukrainian film critic Ivanna Dyadyura.

The non-competitive Festival of Festivals section will feature titles such as the Cannes Palme d'Or winner Parasite by Bong Joon-ho, Pain & Glory [+lee también:
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entrevista: Antonio Banderas
Q&A: Pedro Almodóvar
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entrevista: Céline Sciamma
ficha de la película] by Céline Sciamma and Synonyms [+lee también:
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entrevista: Nadav Lapid
ficha de la película] by Nadav Lapid, while Sorry We Missed You [+lee también:
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Q&A: Ken Loach
ficha de la película] by Ken Loach, The Dead Don't Die [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Jim Jarmusch, The Golden Glove [+lee también:
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entrevista: Fatih Akin
entrevista: Jonas Dassler
ficha de la película] by Fatih Akin and Deerskin [+lee también:
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entrevista: Quentin Dupieux
ficha de la película] by Quentin Dupieux will be part of the Gala Premieres programme.

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: Markuss by Anton Azarov (Ukraine/Latvia), Arde Madrid by Paco León and Anna R Costa (Spain), The Pleasure Principle by Dariusz Jablonski (Poland/Ukraine/Czech Republic), Mytho by Fabrice Gobert (France), and The Virtues by Shane Meadows and Jack Thorne (UK).

Finally, Mike Leigh and Catherine Deneuve will be the honorary guests at the tenth OIFF, and they will also have two mini-retrospectives dedicated to them, where three films by or starring each will be screened. In the Special Screenings programme, the documentaries Varda by Agnès [+lee también:
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entrevista: Agnès Varda
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ficha de la película] by Sergei Loznitsa and Putin's Witnesses [+lee también:
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entrevista: Vitaly Mansky
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