One of the recent developments of the industry was Ukraine’s participation in the European Film Market during the 71 Berlin International Film Festival. There, Ukraine organized market screenings for four films. The Film Industry...
With just a few words, Olena Yeremeyeva, producer of Ukrainian series and films on 1 + 1 channel, managed to become famous for a day! To achieve such fame and glory, she came up with nothing better than to share her thoughts on the...
The film title refers to the family story of the author. In the late 1950s, Crimean Tatar artists deported to Central Asia organized a folk song and dance ensemble. The uncle of Akhtem Seitablaiev suggested to call it...
School Number 3, a documentary film from Ukraine, won the Grand Prix of the Berlinale festival in the category 14plus. It tells the story of Donbas teenagers who experienced warfare between the Ukrainian army and Russian-backed...
It is now three years since Euromaidan won. Three months of protests in Ukraine’s capital that started in November 2013 as an opposition to then President Yanukovych’s refusal to sign the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement ended...
“Winter on Fire” is a beautiful and important film. It tells the true story of a stunning show of collective humanity that culminated in a revolution in Ukraine, Europe’s largest country and one Americans know next...
The award ceremony event that took place on Jan 5th, at the West Hollywood City Council Chambers where the “Mirror of the Freedom Award” was given to the filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky. After the ceremony, there was a...
Evgeny Afineevsky had a wild ride while filming “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom”, the undeniably moving and inspiring documentary (now available on Netflix.) As if the stirring real-life drama were not...
The documentary Maidan, depicting the events of Ukraine’s Euromaidan revolution, has won the grand prize at the Nuremberg International Human Rights Festival, as reported on the festival’s website. The film...
Julia moved to Kyiv to go to school. She left her home in western Ukraine to attend a university in her nation’s capital city. Like other young Ukrainians, her focus was on the future: carving out a career, working hard for a...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
