Tender Ukrainization

Antin Mukharsky, a TV host, theatre actor and artist, told The Ukrainian Week about Russian mass culture in Ukraine, nouveau riche and booboisie art

Sharp Pencils Shape Politics

American readers and editors prefer more edgy cartoons these days

Ukrainian Paris

Must-sees for every Ukrainian tourist who visits the French capital include the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Luxembourg Gardens, the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée de Cluny, and so on. But Paris also has many places linked to Ukraine…

Cultural Industry. Art in Kryvyi Rih

Ukrainians seem to see Kryvyi Rih, a city of almost 700,000, in light of its not being an oblast centre and being limited to metallurgical giants.

Literary Infantilism

Ukraine lacks adolescent books by local authors and those writing for teenagers avoid controversy and depict the world through rose-coloured glasses.

Oliver Stone: I guess there is an inborn rebel in me

American director talks about Savages and the nature of human violence

He Who Became a Strongman

The end of August saw the start of the filming of Strong Ivan, the currently little-known story about Ivan Firtsak, a Ukrainian who was recognized as the strongest man in the world in 1928

Foma: An Internal Traveller

Serhiy “Foma” Fomenko speaks about the Kyiv school of rock, music exports and his willingness to work with the opposition

White on White

Normandy in Painting: an art history guide and escape from an industrial estate

A Melody Revealed

Taras Filenko speaks about Mykola Lysenko’s contribution to studying and systematising folk melodies and his impact on the world music process

Eternal Questions on Film

A feature documentary by director Oleksandr Balahura is a summary of the past 15-20 years in Ukraine of sorts

Dagmar Ostrzhanska: “People need something to identify themselves with. What should it be? Language of course!”

Dagmar Ostrzhanska, director of the Czech Centre in Kyiv tells The Ukrainian Week of Czech-Ukrainian cultural relations, the Ukrainian art underground and the language inactivity of our compatriots.

The Hero, the Son of a Hero

Serhiy Havrylov, scriptwriter and creative producer, on Mykyta Kozhumyaka, the first Ukrainian full-length 3D-cartoon

The Best 8 Roles of Bohdan Stupka

For now, Bohdan Stupka is remembered as the actor who conveyed the entire range of human emotions, feelings, actions and characters on the screen, transforming from Bohdan Khmelnytsky into Ivan Mazepa and Leonid Brezhnev, a Ukrainian guerilla fighter or a KGB officer, a priest or an atheist father.

Graphic Novels

In spite of the rapid development of comic books in Ukraine, the genre rarely captures wide public attention. The Ukrainian Week takes an insight into why this is the case

The Vibrant Ukrainicum

Greifswald University — a centre for Ukrainian studies in Europe

Controlled Chaos

Chaos with music copyright protection is killing Ukrainian music

The Philosophical Instrument of Danylo Demutskiy

Soviet authorities awarded the Ukrainian cinematographer with three arrests, deportation, imprisonment and the prestigious Stalin Prize

A Chronicle of Everyday Life

For almost half a century Antanas Sutkas, the founder of the now world-famous Lithuanian school of photography, photographed the unattractive daily life of common people in his country

Destined to Fly Higher

Ivan Kavaleridze as the founder of historical monumental cinema in Ukraine

7 Films

to watch from the 3rd Odesa Film Festival

“Brothers” Comes to Life in the Carpathians

The “Brothers” project, which was already presented three years ago at the 1st Kyiv International Film Festival, only began filming in 2011, when producer Ihor Savichenko started work on it. Director Victoria Trofimenko has currently completed spring-summer filming in the Carpathian Mountains.

Children’s Dream Factory

Masha Ellsworth, a Ukrainian-born artist at Pixar, talks about Brave behind the scenes and her path from a Chernihiv college to one of the world’s leaders of animated cartoons

Going Home to Find Yourself

Film director Taras Khymych talks about documentaries and his film about Zakarpattia in 1919-1939

Ukrainian Hercules

Ukraine’s funniest folk tales are retold in a new cartoon series called The Adventures of Kotyhoroshko and Friends

Painting the City

Street art becomes make-up for Ukrainian streets