On this page you will find the most important information of the already existing, but still very young Mriya International Film Festival (MIFF). The festival has a Ukrainian identity and its mission is to remind people how to celebrate life through films.

The idea of creating Mriya International Film Festival was based on bringing together several things that our team had been focused on in the later part of our “lives”, before the full-scale war and after.

We always admired Ukrainian culture, its identity and strength, and after the full-scale invasion our team also felt an obligation to show it to everyone who would be interested to get to know the reason for our warm feelings about Ukrainian culture. And as a result of this interest our Film Festival would have an opportunity to support our country financially to help the people who stayed there and are in need of humanitarian aid. Additionally, the people who were forced to move abroad, including ourselves, would be able to unite at our festival and focus on really important values that they started to forget about in the harsh gray reality of the war.

The name of the festival displays several important elements: Straight translation: Mriya/Мрія - from Ukrainian means dream. Symbolic belonging to history: our festival is named after the Mriya AN-225, the largest airplane in the world, created in Ukraine and destroyed at the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

Create a worldwide cultural community centered around the values of happiness and inspiration. Encourage people to care for each other and support the ones in need.

Remind people how to celebrate life by the example of Ukrainians, who in nowadays realities know more than anyone else how to set priorities in order to live, not just to exist.