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Your Guide To The 2018 Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival
The Molodist film festival, the longest running film festival in Ukraine, will take place between May, 27th and June, 3 at which point the...
Yuri Kuznetsov, Odessa’s Great Jazz Pianist Passes On
This morning Odessa said goodbye to Yuri Kuznetsov, it’s greatest Jazz pianist, with almost five hundred of his friends and loyal fans gathering for...
Ukraine in Cannes
The Cannes Film Festival, which takes place annually in the south of France, is often criticized as an elite gathering riddled with starlets and...
The Art and Science of Translating Babel
In 1929, the great American literary critic Lionel Trilling read a book “about Soviet regiments of horse operating in Poland” that disturbed him, charged,...
Inside Look At The Eventfull Days Of 2017 GOGOLFEST
The 10th anniversary multidisciplinary contemporary art festival GOGOLFEST 2017 Ark was taking place in Kiev in this September. The festival lasted until 17 September....
The Decommunizing Of Taras Shevchenko
The remarkable poet and artist who is considered to be the father of the modern Ukrainian nation means different things to different people. It...
Ukraine’s Toponymic Revolution
The process of implementing the recently passed de-Communization laws has not been particularly smooth. The debates over Communist-era place names are roiling Ukrainians’ efforts...
Remember That Name: Saxophonist Andrej Prozorov
Andrej Prozorov has long been a popular saxophonist in Europe. He was born in Odessa, and in the year 2000 entered the Vienna Conservatory. ...
OIFF Update: “Illegitimate” (2016)
What boundaries do people have in life? Of course, different people have different answers. The Romanian film “Illegitimate”, directed by Adrian Sitaru, deals with...
Photographer in Focus: David Grigoryan
David Grigoryan was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and moved to Odessa at the age of six. His family left Georgia because of the war....
