00:00As a filmmaker, Canada's place is very special to me, because my film Farewell
00:10might come to Hawaii. It's an extraordinary journey here. I've got to pound it.
00:24Far beyond anything I could have imagined, really. But in the beginning, I knew a little
00:33bit about filmmaking, about cinema. But I had deep passion and a strong desire to tell
00:43the stories. I think that today, so many young filmmakers experience the same thing, uncertainty.
00:58Making a first film means moving forward through doubt, sometimes through darkness, without
01:09truly knowing where the journey will lead. But great films are often burned from that
01:19fragility. Cinema has the power to transform the emotions, memories, wants and dreams into
01:30something that can be shared with the whole world. And that is why it is so important to
01:40support new generations of filmmakers to continue.
01:52So, I would like to thank BYD, and the media one, as well as Staley, and Pierre-Antoine Gapoglu. I'm
02:15sorry,
02:16that, you know, I got a problem to pronounce your name.
02:22Alright. So, for young filmmakers that, with new perspective, new language, and new ways, look at the world.
02:37So, I'm also very honored to chair this jury alongside with three fantastic artists. Sorry, I'm afraid to pronounce your
02:58name wrong again.
03:02So, but I really appreciate it. You know, together, they and me discover the films filled with the courage,
03:14personality, and the freedom. And through this selection, we can clearly see how cinema continues to reinvent itself.
03:29across cultures, generations, and borders. Thank you all for being here tonight. And congratulations already to all the filmmakers selected
03:47for this first edition.
03:50Because every first movie is, in itself, an act of courage. Thank you so much.
04:01Thank you so much.
04:06Okay. So, that's the time to make an announcement of who is the winner of the prize.
04:15The winner.
04:17The movie is very important. I must say that. Honeymoon.
04:39I need this microphone to hold my most hands, but also I need my notes because it's a small
04:47speech and if you allow me like five minutes of your attention because I really want to stand on this
04:57stage in this beautiful company and this beautiful moment to say something special for me okay dear
05:09colleagues dear guests dear friends as a Ukrainian who actually lives in Ukraine today I want to share
05:19a few thoughts about small things you can notice only when you live in a country at work the first
05:28thing is sleep very often my sleeping schedule literally depends on the news for example when
05:36top politicians come to Kyiv this it usually doesn't get shot that night and sometimes you say
05:43that the visit of Emmanuel Macron Boris Johnson or Ursula von der Leyen is the best sleeping pill so
05:52technically speaking you can write the first draft of a screenplay in approximately 10 visits of top
06:01politician in Ukraine the second scene is coffee if you cannot distinguish arabica from robusta people
06:12look at you slightly suspicious we also have this job that you are walking in the morning to work through
06:20a burning of bombed city but still carrying your lavender rough and coconut milk it keeps you sane it returns
06:30a
06:30sense of humanity in deeply abnormal times and feeling of simple joy without guilt another seat scene is
06:42gardening many of my friends suddenly started growing things and their summer houses or on tiny pieces of
06:50land inherited from their grandparents my friend my friend marina planted a ginkgo biloba tree it's the oldest
06:59tree species on earth and it goes incredibly slow maybe my grandchildren will see its first fruits she said
07:08of me and I think it is like a quiet manifesto saying this is my land and I'm not going
07:16to leave it and
07:19another last thing is gossips two years ago five of my female friends and me we started the tradition of
07:29going to
07:30this sauna sauna together once a month and talk about politics we sit in this huge jar of hot water
07:40with
07:40herbs and slices of oranges and discussing international and Ukrainian news and sometimes man of course this is
07:50this is how we try to digest this reality we cut our anxiety in half by sharing it with each
07:59other during
08:01these first years of the full-scale invasion I truly believe that only we as my community my people could
08:09understand each other but almost every screen of my family convinced me that art and especially cinema is
08:19maybe the only thing that capable of breaking through this glass wall of distance and different
08:27experience of people and this is probably why we myself continue to make films to remind to myself and
08:36to each other that our ability to feel to listen and to recognize ourselves and someone else's stories is
08:44still alive thank you very much for your thanks
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