It began in 1970 as a two-day festival of films, shot by students of Kyiv State Institute of Theatrical Arts, presenting 33 movies that year.
Currently recognized European producers have debuted at the Molodist festival: Fred Keleman, Tom Tykwer, Danny Boyle, Francois Ozon, Andras Monori, Ildikó Enyedi, Hera Popelaars, Jacques Audiard, Sergiy Masloboychykova, Oleksiy Balabanov, Denys Evstigneev, Stephen Doldri.
The competition program of the festival annually presents in Ukraine the works of talented young people from all continents selected at dozens of national and international film reviews.
On the "youth" there were debuts today recognized European stages: Fred Kelemen, Tom Tykwer, Danny Boyle, Francois Ozon, Andras Monari, Ildico End, Hera Popelayar, Sergey Maslavyschikova, Oleksiy Balabanov, Denisa Eugene, and others.
The participants of the “youth” later noted the “gold palm branch” (Bruno Dumon) and Oscar (Alain Berliner).