📝 OKO International Ethnographic Film Festival (🇺🇦: Міжнародний етнографічний кінофестиваль “ОКО”; 🇧🇬: Международен фестивал на етнографското кино “ОКО”; as an alternative to the official title of the Film Festival, it is allowed to use "OKO International Ukrainian-Bulgarian Ethnographic Film Festival" or OKO IEFF) is an annual international film festival since 2020. OKO has been a Ukrainian-Bulgarian festival since 2023. It conducts the main events on the territory of Ukraine and Bulgaria.
• Ethnography, folkloristic, anthropology, history, everyday life, problems and hopes, culture, national traditions and habits, notable events and personalities, post-ethnography etc. are the main focus of the Film Festival."OKO" is a symbiosis of honoring traditions, learning new things and searching for current forms and trends, both in the national cultures of Ukraine and Bulgaria, and in the cultures of the whole world.
• OKO IEFF accepts for participation in all sections and programs not only non-fiction films, but also feature-length and short films of all genres and made in any technique (live-action, documentary, animated, experimental etc) corresponding to the main topic of the Film Festival.
🇬🇧 Statute of the VI OKO IEFF: https://en.okofilmfest.com.ua/filmfestival-concept-2025
🇺🇦 Положення про VI МЕКФ «ОКО»: https://www.okofilmfest.com.ua/filmfestival-concept-2025
🇧🇬 Разпоредба за VI МФЕК „ОКО“: https://bg.okofilmfest.com.ua/filmfestival-concept-2025
📎 You can visit our official HQ-Letterboxd page:
💾 https://letterboxd.com/okoieff/
📎 Competitive selections and winners of past editions can be viewed in the festival tab in IMDb:
💾 https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0047128/
⁉️ If you have any additional questions, you may contact us by sending an email to:
👤 the festival team (in the subject line of the letter, do not forget to indicate the specifics of the question): okofilmfestival@gmail.com
👤 programme director (exclusively on the issue of submitting and selecting films): oscar75@ua.fm
🏆 Jury Grand Prize
🗒 Prize package includes 500 EUR, festival trophy, jury festival diploma. Awarded in each of the competitive program sections: OKO GLOBAL FICTION, OKO GLOBAL NON-FICTION, NASHE OKO, OKO SHORT
🏆 Special Jury Prize for Ethnographic Representation
🗒 Prize package includes 200 EUR, festival trophy, jury festival diploma. Awarded in each of the competitive program sections: OKO GLOBAL FICTION, OKO GLOBAL – NON-FICTION, NASHE OKO, OKO SHORT
🏆 Special Jury Prize for Best Ukrainian-Bulgarian Short Film
🗒 Prize package includes 200 EUR, festival trophy, jury festival diploma. Awarded in OKO SHORT program
🏆 Jury Special Mention
🗒 Prize package includes jury festival diploma. By decision of the jury, any film, person, team member, ensemble, creative team, protagonist, etc. in a film of any competition section may be given a special mention.
🏆 Bolhrad City Council Audience Prize
🗒 Prize package includes 150 EUR, festival trophy, festival diploma. A special audience prize on behalf of the community of the city of Bolhrad for the most favorite Bulgarian film from the festival line-up (for films shown for the first time at the festival)
🏆 OKO Ukraine & OKO Bulgaria Audience Grand Prizes
🗒 Prize package includes 150 EUR, festival trophy, festival diploma, each. Competition films of all sections participate, the winner is determined by audience voting.
🏆 OKO Ukraine On-line & OKO Bulgaria On-line Audience Grand Prizes
🗒 Prize package includes 150 EUR, festival trophy, festival diploma, each. Competition films of all sections, demonstrated in the online edition, are participating, the winner is determined by the number of views by the audience.
🏆 Festival Team Special Prizes for: Feature Film / Short Film / Creative Ethnographic Representation / Cinematic Innovation & Craft
🗒 Prize package includes festival trophy & festival diploma, each. The festival team and the program department independently determine the winner in each prize category. Films from across the lineup that were screened at the festival for the first time are being considered.
🏆 OKO Achievement Awards Contribution to: Development of Ethnography and Culture / Development of Cinema
🗒 Prize package includes special festival trophy & festival diploma, each. The festival determines recipients and their number independently.
🏆 COLLATERAL JURY & FESTIVAL PARTNERS PRIZES
🗒 The organizer may, upon agreement, involve parallel independent collateral juries that determine their prizes and awards independently. The prizes of the involved independent parallel juries are equated to the festival award, in accordance with the generally accepted practice of holding similar events, namely international film festivals.
📄 NOTE: As a general rule, the winner in all sections is the film and director, with the exception of special mentions. The cash prize can be received by the producer, the copyright holder or other person, without acquiring the status of "film festival winner".