the audiences another open-air venue – The Langeronovskiy Descent, where nightly films were screened for audiences underneath the night sky. Since 2017 instead of Langeronovskiy Descent screenings took place at Odesa Green Theatre in Shevchenko Park. At the festival in 2014, a fundraiser was held for Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, illegally convicted and imprisoned in Russia. In 2019, on the occasion of the anniversary of the festival, two open-air performances took place on the Potemkin Stairs. On 13 July, the cult film "Cossacks" (1928) produced by MGM was shown to the audience at the Potemkin Stairs. And on 19 July, the guests of the OIFF saw Vlad Troitsky's unique musical media-performance opera "Stairs to ...". This show was created specifically for the anniversary Odesa International Film Festival. Open-air screenings were also waiting for the audience at the Green Theater – in particular, on the 6th day of the film festival, a German film, a classic of silent cinema, " The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" by Robert Wiene was shown. A special performance at the Green Theater was accompanied by a performance by the British musical trio The Tiger Lillies Professional events Film Industry Office (Pitch/Work in Progress) The Film Industry Office section was established as a platform for professional communication, support and development of Ukrainian film projects and the film industry in general, as well as for the presentation of the Ukrainian film industry to the international community. The section includes pitching of feature film projects that are at the pre-production stage, as well as presentations of Work in Progress projects – feature films in the final stage of production, scheduled for cinematic screening. Participants in the section can be distributors, buyers, festival selectors, representatives of film establishments and specialized film companies, investors, filmmakers (actors, directors, screenwriters, cameramen, production artists), producers. Movie market (winter and summer) OIFF also holds two film markets annually – in winter and summer. OIFF Film Market is a professional communication platform for distributors, representatives of cinemas, film studios, and companies that provide rental and other services. In 2017–2018, Anna Machukh was the director of the Odesa International Film Festival Film Market. Summer Film School The Summer Film School program was established for students of film schools and other types of learning establishments who consider themselves lovers of the film arts. During the daytime, the U-Cinema Theater on the property of the Odesa Film Studio, serves