[8] The festival is intended to aid in the popularization and reinterpretation of international silent film classics by means of contemporary music interpretations, performed by European guest-artists and Ukrainian musicians, and to restore a contemporary art context to the Ukrainian avant-garde films of Alexander Dovzhenko, Dziga Vertov, Ivan Kavaleridze, Heorhiy Stabovyi and others.

The opening film of the festival was the film collage "Symphony in Images" (Una Sinfinia en Imagenes) by the Spanish director Carlos Rodríguez, created as an illustration of Hector Berlioz's "Fantastic Symphony" and presented for the first time at the Sydney Opera House and at the IFF in San Sebastian.

The program of the festival included the films "Hush, be sad, be quiet" (1918), "Night coachman" (1929), "Arsenal" (1929), "Man with a film camera" (1929), "Earth in captivity" (1927), " A Strong Man" (1929), "Raskolnikov" (1919) and retrospectives of avant-garde directors of Ukrainian origin Eugene Deslav and Maya Deren.

The titles of the sets were Ukrainian legendary actors Vira Kholodna and Semyon Svashenko and popular European stars from Ukraine Anna Sten and Hryhoriy Khmara.

The films were voiced by musicians from Ukraine, Russia, and Poland: Yuriy Kuznetsov, Vitaly Tkachuk Quartet, Too Sleepy, Diana Miro, ShockolaD, Arseniy Trofim.