Shot from a distance, the viewer is able to observe a group of inmates waiting for a bus after being released from a penitentiary, and how they react to finally being free.
[7] A special mention went to the film Stay awake, Be ready that takes the viewer on an exciting yet trivial night out in Vietnam.
[7] The winner of the Ukrainian competition in 2020 went to The Carpet by Natasha Kyselova for her beautiful cinematography capturing a teenage boy's coming-of-age moments of burgeoning love and friendships tested, set against the increasingly tense back-drop of escalating war.
[7] A special mention was awarded to Metawork, created by Vasyl Lyah, "for the director's artistic vision and highly promising independent voice" His film depicted a young man tending to his garden, his creativity and care becoming a political act of survival and resistance in modern-day Ukraine.
Jamie Meltzer Leonhard Müllner Michael Stumpf In the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, which escalated the Russo-Ukraine War, the Kyiv Short Film Festival requested that foreign cities screen Ukrainian short films to introduce European culture (especially Ukrainian culture) and raise funds for humanitarian assistance during the war.