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The Odessa Review’s OIFF Diary: Day 3 — Dixie Land, Black Level, Gabriel and...

Dixie Land and Black Level By Ulyana Dovgan The third day of the festival has demonstrated to the audiences that the future of Ukrainian cinema belongs...

What Is Street Art And Why Odessa Needs It

Street art comes to Odessa as a new generation of young urban reformers think about integrating luscious murals and street honed non conformist artisanship...

The Odessa Review’s OIFF Diary: Day 1 — Free and Easy, In Between

Free and Easy (China, 2016) By Yevgeniya Seleznyova My first day of the Odessa International Film Festival started at 10 AM with "Free and Easy," a film...

Photographer in Focus: Juliya Podvigina

Juliya Podvigina was born and raised in Odessa. She remembers looking at the world around her and thinking — “these moments pass and die,...

Filmed in Odessa:

An Odessa marked the shooting locations of hundreds of films on a city map. It was truly a titanic work and took almost ten years...

Odessa’s Non-Conformist Artists: The Warriors Of An Unofficial Mythology

By Yevgeniya Selezneva, participant of The Odessa Review journalism seminar and workshop Today, when speaking of art, we shouldn’t become distracted by paying too much attention...

How To Write A Book In The Ukrainian Literary Context 

By Daria Popovich, participant of The Odessa Review journalism seminar and workshop This is an excerpt from a longer work in progress on working on...

“Nightmare After Christmas” – Kinder Album’s Melancholic, Indulgent Winter Wonderland

Kinder Album is the pseudonym of a young woman artist from Lviv. Kinder Album is an anonymous art project which began on Facebook in...

Small Is Beautiful Is Not Just A Slogan: On American Artist George-Ann Gowan...

In May 2017, H.E. Marie Louise Yovanovitch, the 9th United States Ambassador to Ukraine, invited the artist George-Ann Gowan, a longtime friend and a...

Festival Organization: Learning To Do The Impossible

A festival is typically a bright and colorful kaleidoscope affair composed numerous diverse events. For visitors, a festival should be a  pure celebration of...