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Ukraine film production descended from the Soviet film industry Before perestroika, the industry followed the centralized command-administrative model, with the State Committee for Cinematography, Goskino, controlling all aspects of production. Each major studio was organized in a strict hierarchy and had to answer to Goskino. No film could be produced without Goskino's approval. Goskino also dealt with financial issues, material resources,and technical and creative crews. It handled questions about hiring policies, international contacts, payment for creative work, and so forth.

Films have been made under the auspices of these ideological principles, such as "the romanticism of revolutionary feats ideals of communism", "Soviet patriotism", "socialist humanism" etc.

The Soviet film industry today had restructured completely, from conception through production and distribution.
One of the largest and well-known science and film studio in Europe is National Cinematheque of Ukraine (NCU), founded under the name of `Kyivnaukfilm`. Since its foundation in 1941, it has produced more then 500 films, which were highly rewarded in Ukrainian and international film festivals. NCU was registered in the international `Golden book` (London).

Many films of NCU belong to the notable phenomenon of the World cinematography. They represent Ukrainian feature, documentary and science films. Among them: `Language of animals`, `Do the animals think? `, `Indian yogis. Who are they? `, ` Seven steps to the skyline`, `Mustang-ambler`, `Domino`, `People dolphins`.

NCU has prepared for demonstration the whole unique thematic series of films under the name of `Unknown Ukraine. The stories of the history`. This series consists of 144 films for 15-30min., devoted to unknown historical events of our country from ancient period till present days also to the history of Ukrainian military, low and medicine.

Authors of this big creative work used historical materials, authentic and verified facts, which gave them an opportunity to profoundly analyze the history of Ukraine and make highly artistic cinema.

NCU is considered a leader in the field of science and documentary film in Ukraine. It has a great creative potential and a highly professional experience, which allow it to trust any interesting and fruitful proposals, concerning continued cooperation. We take the liberty to ensure the best level of the results of our cooperation.
Archives of NCU are the unique and valuable collection of film materials.

NCU has own perfect technical equipment for film production used 35mm film gauge. There are laboratory for film development, film studios, special effects department complex of devices for air and submarine shooting, shop of the traditional and computer animation and the whole sound-track technique.

Highly professional staff of NCU realizes different kinds of film production: cinema and video films for broadcasting, advertising film, commercials, and visual publicity models. It provides foreign films with translation and also dubbing-in them

There are conducted a lot of film festivals in Ukraine, such as International Film Festival Molodist in Kyiv, The first All-Ukrainian festival of Plast Amateur Video «Fest-kiNO» in Ternopil , International Film Festival «Kino-Yalta, Festival of europian kino in Kiev, Festival Kino without boders in Odessa etc.