On the Black Sea coast today, on July 13, the Odessa International Film Festival starts, the story "TSN. Ranok ".

The opening is just being prepared, but the first guests have already arrived. At night, VIP guest of the festival flew to Odessa - actor Eric Roberts, brother of Julia Roberts. The star immediately turned to Oleg Sentsov.

"Happy birthday, you are a genius and thank you for everything," Roberts said..

The actor admitted that not a single Ukrainian film in his life has been seen. "You know, I'm in this complete zero - yes".

After the brother of Julia Roberts signed on the backs of several fans and left, as he said, eat and sleep before opening.

Within the next week, the events of the festival will be held immediately at eight Odessa venues. In general, from July 13 to July 21 in Odessa in three cinemas will show as many as 110 films.

For the first time in Ukraine at the festival, one can see the domestic picture of Sergei Loznitsa "Donbass", which has already received a prize in Cannes for the best direction. Among the foreign films recommended to watch the "Human Flow" Chinese Ai Weiwei and "Everybody knows" with Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem. And a new film of the scandalous director Gaspar Noe "Ecstasy".

The film festival will begin traditionally at five in the evening from the red carpet near Opera House.