COVID-19 pandemic could not stop the Ukrainian Film Academy from presenting its Zolota Dzyga awards for achievement in the development of Ukrainian cinema

The role of historical films in modern Ukrainian cinematography

How Ukrainian cinema faces modern challenges

The director of the film "Stus" has decided to bring back the scene with politically fringe figure

Director of The Cyborgs, Her Heart and Haytarma, speaks about contemporary Ukrainian film, about propaganda in movies, about what unites Crimean Tatars today, and about Crimea House in Kyiv, which Seitablayev has been running since early 2017

The Ukrainian Week offers a selection of art shows, film festivals and concerts to visit this month

10 feature films here and coming soon

Film director Tom Hooper talks about Les Misérables as a breakthrough in the musical genre

The Ukrainian Week`s compilation of the most anticipated Ukrainian and foreign films and concerts from legendary performers in 2013

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.

How the British agent became a global hero

American director talks about Savages and the nature of human violence

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?