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OIFF Update: Death by Death
This marginal comedy, “Death by Death”, is the black-and-white debut feature of director Xavier Seron. The picture is the winner of the Palm Springs Film...
Odessa Tales with Boris Khersonsky
During the first year that the ‘City Semibasement’ Club was first opened in Odessa, it was so well-attended that it was absolutely impossible to...
The Odessan Dvorik
The Ukrainian and Russian words “dvorik” and “dvor” (or dvoriki and dvori in plural) are frequently translated into English as either “courtyard” or “patio,”...
Odessa talent thrills ‘Voice of Ukraine’ judges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUejDKXfhP8
Last year Odessa singer Felix Shinder proved a big hit on popular TV show ‘Voice of Ukraine’. This year 22-year-old Odessite Tatyana Amirova iswell on her...
Gapa Guzhva
Val Vinokur has just published "The Essential Fictions," a newly translated collection of the works of Odessan Jewish writer Isaac Babel. This story was...
Culture Under Threat: The Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra As Case Study
Odessa’s storied Philharmonic Orchestra is an excellent institution that is sustained by the energies of its charismatic American conductor Hobart Earle. Short on critical...
The Other Half Of The Equation
Prominent Odessa-born art theorist and media artist Peter Weibel thinks that the European art scene needs more contributions from the East.
Peter Weibel is an...
Docudays Festival UA 2018
Read more of Ulyana Dovgan's film criticism here.
This year, Docudays UA, the most prominent Ukrainian festival of creative documentary film is set to begin...
On Vlad Troitsky: Ukraine’s Great Cultural Impresario
A profile of the an artist, director, promoter, set designer who who is arguably the most interesting man now working in Ukrainian theater as...
The Scent Of Romance: Four Tales of Love In Odessa
One of the most respected journalists on the Ukraine and Russian conflict recounts four stories of romance in the city.
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