the 8th OIFF within the Film Industry Office section, in addition to the traditional pitching of feature films and presentations of motion pictures at the Work in Progress stage, the Odesa IFF ScripTeast Series Projects competition and Actor's Workshop took place. Due to the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War , the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic will be hosting parts of the OIFF in July 2022 and Prishtina Film Fest in Kosovo will be the host of the Film Festival in Pristina. Board As of 2019, the festival management consists of: • Viktoria Tigipko (President) • Yuliia Sinkevych (General Producer) • Yuliia Sharko (Administrative Director) • Anna Machukh (Business Development Director) • Oleksandr Kholodenko (Executive Director) The structure of the festival Competition program The festival has three competition programs: the International Feature Film Competition Program, the National Competition Program and the European Documentary Film Competition . The films allowed to participate in the European Documentary Competition are selected from feature-length documentaries, which were made in full or within the framework of international co-production with production entities from the following countries: Austria, Albania, Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Georgia, Denmark, Israel, Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Kosovo, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, Finland, France, Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia. The International Competition Program selects new feature films completed after 1 January of the current year, and whose premieres have not yet taken place on the territory of Ukraine at the time of the beginning of the festival. The selection of films is carried out by a selection committee, and the main selection criterion is a film of high artistic level, designed for a wide audience, which is the main concept of the international competition program. New feature films shot between 1 January of the previous year and which have not yet been shown in Ukraine are selected for the competition. The National Competition will feature Ukrainian short-length and feature-length films completed after 1 January of the previous year. Film format – film (35 mm) or digital (DCP). 1,110 films from 40 countries of the three continents were submitted to participate in the 10th anniversary Odesa International Film Festival. 12 films-participants of the International Competition competed for the main prize – Grand Prix; 5 feature and 10 short films took