Ukrainian Cinema. Making It Real

The Ukrainian Week launched the Cinema Project column 18 months ago to talk about Ukrainian films at different stages of production. It is time now to check in and see how they are doing

The Painted Garden

Woodland art, a painting style introduced by Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau, a member of the Ojibwe tribe, has also taken root in Ukraine

The Western Brand

The socio-cultural revolution of soviet mods against boring clothes, music and behaviour in the USSR

Biology of an Author

Taras Prokhasko speaks on the fundamental elements of being, models of an ideal Ukraine and his own writings

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Rooney Mara shares with the Ukrainian Week what difficulties she has faced playing Lisbeth Salander

Kyiv's Ghost of Christmas Past

Spend the holidays with Cossacks at the Mamayeva Sloboda open-air museum

Ukrainian Theaters Address Identity Issues – With German Help

Modern German-language drama is coming onto Kyiv theater stages. Foreign authors are largely looking to answer the question, “Who am I?” as they, sometimes provocatively, address the critical issue of identity – something Ukrainians themselves are grappling with

The Tune of Resistance

Oleh Skrypka believes we can create strong communities by building links to our people’s past.

Austria: A Small Country With Its Own Cinema

Barbara Pichler speaks about how the presence of a large, dominant neighbor creates special conditions for filmmaking in Austria

Silent Dialogs With Film

Silent film festivals which offer early 20th-century masterpieces in new artistic interpretations are a notable recent trend

Books for Chicks

In the West, there is growing demand for women's literature, the favored genre of young emancipated female megalopolis residents. Ukraine also has books in this genre but they are special in their own way

Perfect Harmony on Paper

Artist Pavlo Makov explains and decodes artistic images and symbols, modern phenomena and concepts

While My Violin Gently Weeps

Why Ukrainian classical music is still “underground” outside the country

Putting a Premium On Culture

Wrocław Vice President Jaroslaw Obremski: “Citizens’ creativity is a value to the city”

Dovzhenko: The Last Utopian

Until the end of his life, Oleksandr Dovzhenko dreamed of ideal communism, even though after shooting the film Zemlia (The Earth), he knew it would be a human tragedy

Hutsul-Inspired Suprematism

Artist Oleksandr Ackerman talks about the phenomenon of the Zakarpattia school of painting and the sanctuary that is his own soul

Ucrainica Italiana

Italian scholar Giovanna Brogi Bercoff, a Slavic and Ukrainian studies specialist, speaks about the state of affairs with Ukrainian academia in Ukraine and abroad

From Russia With Love

Ukrainian classical music aficionados got the chance to listen to a new work by a first-class Ukrainian composer only after its world premiere in Tyumen

Molodist 41

Modest and tasteful: despite financial losses this year, the film festival — scheduled to take place in Kyiv October 22-30 — will not suffer artistically

Galicia Passion

Łukasz Saturczak speaks about his novel Galicia and the relationships between Ukrainians and Poles in border regions

Parting Prose

German Writer Judith Hermann about Birth of the Text and Death in Life

The Bourne Contagion

Matt Damon about the peculiarities of Steven Soderbergh's medical thriller Contagion

The Poems of Passion

Donbas writers promote sociality

Success Against All Odds

The only Ukrainian on the British rating list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, artist Ivan Marchuk, could not stay abroad and opened an exhibit in his home village of Moskalivka

Sublime and Earthly Things

Cai Guo-Qiang, the Chinese artist known worldwide for his visual effects at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Beijing, descended 1,040 meters into a Donetsk mine this spring. His ‘coverage’ is presented in an art project displayed in the workshops of a one-time Donetsk plant, producing insulation materials, now known as the Isolation. Art Initiative Platform from 27 August through 13 November.

Financing Ukrainian Cinema: To Have One’s Cake and Eat It Too?

In early September 2011, the State Cinema Agency announced what projects were officially included in the 2011–2012 Program for Producing and Distributing National Films. Who will benefit and how?