Les Kurbas: the Revolutionary of the Theatre

Les Kurbas’ innovative approaches went against the canon of social realism, so he was first removed from a cultural milieu and then physically destroyed

On the Other Side of Silence

Director Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi is working on “The Tribe”, a full-length film about those who can neither speak nor hear, where conversations can be seen rather than heard

Rock-n-Roll. Made in UA

Vadym Krasnookyi, Mad Heads XL band leader, talks about trends in music, concerts in small towns and the Ukrainian language as an element of national security

“I am an apostle of bloody ways”

Yevhen Malaniuk as the Ukrainian Freud

Attack of the Clones

George Lucas talks about why he is bringing Star Wars back to the big screen

Cloaked in Bearskin

“Ursus,” a Ukrainian-Georgian-German co-production, is one of the biggest and most exciting film projects of 2012

Never Swap Horses Crossing a Stream

Steven Spielberg talks about his new film

New Wave

The debut single by the Ukrainian band Champagne Morning has climbed to the top of foreign music charts

The Need For Personal Liberation

Régis Wargnier speaks about tunnel vision, exerting pressure and Ukraine at the crossroads

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