The film realised by Kyrylo Naumko, Hannah Hütter and Lydia Gasparini participated in the main competition at the international film festival in Palermo, Italy (3. - 9. July), receiving the prestigious award with the following motivations: "Dear Odesa clearly shows how deliberate and thoughtful editing creates a deeply profound experience for viewers, selecting voices, moments, texts, and vision.  In this film on the violence of war and separation, the editing reveals how cinema, in sound and scene, can portray the silences and gaps in human tragedy."