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Today in National Palace "Ukraine" the Grand closing ceremony was held of the 38th Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist.

This year'sfestival took place from October 18 to 26 in Kyiv with support of HARES Groupand Nemiroff company. Around 300 films have been shown in three competition andover 20 non-competition programs of Molodist in festival center "Cinema Kyiv"and cinemas "Zhovten" and "Kinopanorama".

In competition of student films 30titles participated from 25 countries of the world, the shorts competitionincluded 19 films from 14 countries and feature films competition - 13 moviesrepresenting 12 countries.

International jury of the 38th Kyiv International FilmFestival Molodist -

ArmandAssante, head of jury, actor (USA)

AllaDemidova, actress (Russia)

AndrasFesos, film director and script writer (Hungary)

Serhiy Yakutovich, artist(Ukraine)

GagaChkheidze, director of Tbilisi International Film Festival (Georgia)

YuriyMakarov, TV journalist (Ukraine)

- have awarded the following prizes:

Grand prix - Scythian Deer statuette, diploma and10.000 $ (sponsored by MSL company) - for the best film of all competitionprogram awarded ex-aequo to two films "Buddhacollapsed out of shame" by Hana Makhmalbaf (Iran) and "Shultes" by Bakur Bakuradze (Russia)

Prize for the best full-feature filmand 2500 $ awarded to "Huddersfield"by Ivan Zivkovic (Serbia)

Prize for the best short film andsubtitling for 2500 $ from Laser Video Titres awarded to "Rene" by Tobias Noelle

Prize for the best student film and 2500 $awarded to "Goleshovo" by IlianMetev (Bulgaria / United Kingdom)

Diplomas of the jury awarded to:

Student film "Eliko" by Meni Yaesh (Israel)

Student film "Einladung" by Katrin Gebbe (Germany)

Short film "C'est dimanche" by Samir Guesmi(France)

Short film "Rojo Red" by Juan Manuel Betancourt(Colombia)

Feature film "Versailles" by Pierre Schоller (France)

Feature film"Un coeur simple" by Marion Laine (France)

Yves Montand prize for best acting and EUR 1000from the Embassy of France in Ukraine awarded to Zsolt Anger for his role in "The Investigator" (Hungary)

Besides the main international jury the followingprizes have also been awarded:

FIPRESCI jury - Thomas Taborsky (Austria), France Hatron (France), Dimitar Kabaivanov(Bulgaria) - have awarded their prize to "Versailles"by Pierre Schоller (France)

FICC jury - Christian Heinzel (Germany), Aleksandra Krotkova (Russia), JosteinStrand (Norway) - have awarded their prize to "Buddha collapsed out of shame"by Hana Makhmalbaf (Iran) and diplomas to "Snow" by Aida Begic (Bosniaand Herzegovina) and "LeRing" by Anaіs Barbeau-Lavalette (Canada)

Ecumenical jury - Heike Kühn (Germany), Peter Malone (United Kingdom), KarinaVostriakova (Ukraine) - have awarded their prize for full-feature film to "Un coeur simple"by Marion Laine (France), the short film prize to "It's Sunday!"by Samir Guesmi (France) and diploma to "Buddhacollapsed out of shame" by Hana Makhmalbaf (Iran)

Juryof the parallel competition "Panorama of Ukrainian cinema 2007-2008" - Tamara Trubnikova (Ukraine) and Manana Suradze (Georgia) awarded thefilm "Butterfly wings" by OleksandrBalagura

Jury of theparallel competition of queer films "Sunny Bunny" headed byAnatoliy Yerema (Ukraine) and with Larysa Denysenko (Ukraine), SamantaSokolowski (Germany) and Ed Mishyn (Russia) has decided to award the main prizeto full-feature "The Guitar" by Amy Redford (USA) and a specialdiploma to short film "Cafe Com Leite" by Daniel Ribeiro (Brazil).

Audience awardwas given to the short "Hold on" byDamien Roussineau (France)

Prizefor the contribution to development of Ukrainian cinema from International Charitable Fund "Ukraine 3000", whereof the head ofsupervisory council is Mrs. Kateryna Yushchenko, has been awarded to filmartist Serhiy Yakutovich, who wasalso jury member of this year's festival.

Within the framework of 38thKyiv International Film Festival Molodist traditionally Molodist Film Market was held organized together with Kinoforum Ukraine company. For youngUkrainian cinematographers Kyiv TalentWorkshop project presented a range of master-classes of the world-knownfilm personalities.

For the first time the work of the Festival included "Molodist FilmBoat Meeting"- joint project of Molodist, Ukrainian Cinema Foundation (UCF) and Nemiroff company - a special competition of co-productions whereatyoung cinematographers from Ukraine and neighboring countries got possibilityto present their film projects at the attention of the most influentialEuropean producers and funds that finance cinema production.