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

Kyiv’s Contemporary Sculpture Festival: Monuments to the Everyday

The city has been buzzing with big art shows these days. Following Arsenale 2012, the 1st Kyiv International Biennale for Contemporary Art open through 31 July, the First Contemporary Sculpture Festival runs from 2 June through 2 July

They Like To Move It

Los Colorados talk about their recent breakthrough in music

Ridley Scott: "I find most of my inspiration from low-budget movies now"

When Sir Ridley Scott called ‘action!’ for the first time on the set of Prometheus, it brought things full circle for the legendary British director. After all, he started the Alien franchise in 1979 with the terrifying, claustrophobic original and now, 30 years later, he has returned to the series, eager to explore new ground and new ideas.

12 Summer Music Events

The must-see gigs in the upcoming summer

Backstreet Champions

Akhtem Seitablayev, a Ukrainian director of Crimean Tartar origin, born in Uzbekistan, presented his new film, “Chempiony z Pidvorittia” or “Backstreet Champions”, in the Ukrainian pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival

Arsenale 2012

On 24 May – 31 July, the Art Arsenal is hosting Arsenale-2012, the 1st Kyiv International Biennale for Contemporary Art.

Age Means Nothing

Artist and playwright Les Podereviansky talks about his personal evolution and people that never change

A Genuine Act

Austrian actor and director Karl Markovics speaks about intuitive play, honest films and life after an Oscar

The Death Match Myth

Ukraine’s State Agency for Cinema issued, with some restrictions, a distribution permit for the scandalous $10-million-budget Russian-Ukrainian film ‘The Match’ in April this year.

Songs of Grief and Solitude

The success of a fundamentally non-commercial Kharkiv-based band proves the half-forgotten truth: true art does not necessarily depend on PR – even today

Provoking Dissent

Yuri Vynnychuk talks about grasping the spirit of the time in the writing, passive intellectuals and the rule of the current government as purgatory for Ukraine

Waiting for Quality

The Ukrainian Week looks into ways to improve the organization of Ukrainian festivals

Freedom of Creation

How can Ukrainian theatre be interesting to the rest of the world?

Requiem for the Indifferent

Austrian composer works on a symphony about Holodomor

Cockroach the Star of Vilnius Book Fair

Ukrainian author’s detective story becomes a breakthrough hit at the Vilnius Book Fair