The European Movie Festival is coming to Kyiv for the second year in a row, to be held as part of Europe Days in Ukraine.

The 12-movie festival this year presents movies produced mainly by members of the European Union.

The Spanish movie "Camino" by Javier Fesser opens the festival. It is based on the real story of Alexia Gonzales-Barros, who died of cancer at the age of 14 in 1985. Dreamy girl Camino tries to be a regular teenager and dreams about a boy she has a crush on, despite the constant control of her fanatically religious mother. When she gets ill, her mother considers it to be a test of faith, while all Camino wishes is to see Jesus – also the name of the boy she has a crush on.

Bulgarian movie,"The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner," by Stephan Komandarev, says the story of a boy named Aleksander, who loses his memory after a crash which kills his parents. Now it's up to his grandfather (Miki Manojlovic) to take the boy back to his native Bulgaria, which the family fled many years before, and bring him back to life.

Czech movie "Tobruk" is a history of young man named Jiri who enlists in the Czechoslovakian army in 1941, quickly discovering that his romantic ideas have little to do with the realities of World War II.

Another war-themed movie, Danish "Flammen & Citronen," is about two resistance movement fighters in Nazi-occupied Denmark.

Irish movie "Kings" by Tom Collins raises questions of national identity, through a group of friends – Irish immigrants in London – getting together to mourn a recently deceased friend, whose father is taking his body back to Ireland.

In the Lithuanian movie "Vortex", a man recalls his youth in the Soviet Union.