What is happening with documentaries during the revival of Ukrainian cinematography

When somebody mentions Ukrainian cinema, I immediately find myself thinking about two major film directors - Sergei Parajanov and Kira Muratove

The Tribe, a new film by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, silently speaks for the teenagers who cannot speak

New political turns at the Cannes Festival

B-movie director Roger Corman talks about dealing with viewer's unconscious mind, new facilities for cinematography and resistance in human nature

Good read, jazz and indie arts: The Ukrainian Week invites you to the annual book forum in Lviv, jazz festival in Crimea, Gogolfest in Kyiv and more interesting places to visit this month

Narodna Mudrislt (Folk Wisdom), a cartoon series produced by the National Television and Radio Company (NTKU), won an LA-based Universe Multicultural Film Festival award, NTKU reports.

The twist-filled plot of the film Ivan Syla (Power Ivan) is based on a real person, Ivan Firtsak, a Ukrainian from Transcarpathia who was a famous circus athlete and boxer and performed in 64 countries of the world. He became a legend in his own lifetime.

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

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

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

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.

Ivan Kavaleridze as the founder of historical monumental cinema in Ukraine

to watch from the 3rd Odesa Film Festival

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Marianna Kaat speaks about her attitude to the scandalous removal of her film Pit No.8 from a festival

Documentaries about Donbas coalminers: social antagonism instead of regional patriotism

Thomas Wohlfahrt speaks about literary censorship, public poetry readings and the growth of poetry films fuelled by digital technology

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

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

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

Steven Spielberg talks about his new film

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Writer and film director Heliy Snehirov was unable to exist in the crushing Soviet atmosphere and paid for freedom with his life

Otar Iosseliani speaks about political cinema, the criteria of authenticity and “friendship of peoples”

Krzysztof Zanussi on the self-restriction of successful democracies, the imperfection of tolerance, and art as a quest for mystery

Among the nice-looking new buildings in the village of Chortoryia (Bukovyna) stands an old hut where Ivan Mykolaychuk was born and lived…

Ivan Mykolaychuk was an actor of a magical kind. He embodied specific aesthetics and ethics which directed us into the depth of culture and towards self-awareness as members of unique body and soul of the nation.

Cannes Film Festival winner Maryna Vroda speaks about contrasts, life without cinema and having choices

The latest Cannes Film Festival has once again proved that even the most independent figures cannot avoid politicking

Lomography is the art of photography amateurs who capture life here and now, ignoring the traditional approaches to their trade

Oscar winning actor Christoph Waltz stars opposite Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson in WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, a thrilling tale of adventure and forbidden love, set against the vibrant backdrop of circus life in the 1930s.

He Who Went Through Fire, a full-length feature directed by Mykhailo Illienko, tells the story of Ivan Datsenko, a Ukrainian who ended up chief of an Indian tribe. The film is in final production

Ukrainian amateur filmmaking in the context of global trends