Ukraine on film: Way to Freedom, the festival of Ukrainian cinema will be held for the first time on January 23-24th in the capital of the European Union. «The Tribe» by Miroslav Slaboshpytsky, «The Guide» by Oles Sanin, «Gámer» by Oleg Sentsov and other iconic movies were selected to be presented in the program.

Ukraine on Film festival is planned to be held annually. The theme uniting the program in 2016 is the struggle for freedom, from the daring avant-garde film language of the 20s, and to the age-old symbol of democracy – the Cossacks, whose adventures are shown in the classic cartoon series. It is important that in the light of this particular theme Ukrainian cinema will be presented for the first time in Brussels, the bilingual capital of Benelux, which housed the headquarters of the European Commission and the NATO Council.

Belgian spectators will see «The Tribe», the sensational film by Miroslav Slaboshpytsky, which was honored with more than 40 world film awards, including four Cannes Film Festival prizes and the title of the Year’s European discovery by the European Film Academy. The Oles Sanin's film «The Guide» was the box-office hit in Ukraine, having collected about half a million spectators nationwide. The events of Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity are portrayed in «All Things Ablaze», the best Eastern European documentary of DOK Leipzig film festival. An important place in the «Ukraine on Film» Festival takes the story of Oleg Sentsov, Ukrainian director, who was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Russia on trumped-up charges of terrorism. The festival will organize a screening of his debut movie «Gámer».

The screening of mute film classics, «The Eleventh Year» by Dziga Vertov will be accompanied by live electronic music by Anton Baibakov. The restored copy of that experimental documentary film about Soviet people building socialism is presented by Olexander Dovzhenko National Center. The new soundtrack for the film was created upon request of the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA: it’s premiere took place at the 2010 festival’s Closing Ceremony.

Ukranimafilm animation studio will offer the collection of adventures of the famous Cossacks, who accompanied the childhood of a couple of generations of Ukrainian viewers.

Screenings will take place in the Centre for Fine Arts Bozar. The building, designed by one of the first modernist architects, Victor Horta, was opened in 1928 as a palace for all kinds of art. Today Bozar includes departments of music, film, literature, theater, dance, architecture; it houses exhibitions of various painters, from Lucas Cranach to Frida Kahlo, as well as the final round of the world-famous Queen Elisabeth Music Competition. It also serves as home to the National Orchestra of Belgium. Bozar is fairly considered one of the most prestigious cultural organizations in Brussels.

Organizers of the festival: Ukrainian State Film Agency, Arthouse Traffic, the Centre of Fine Arts Bozar.