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Ivan Kozlenko And The Fight to Reclaim Ukrainian Cinema

A profile of the young Odessa born film aficionado placed in charge of reforming the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Archives. When I meet Ivan Kozlenko...

“FreierFest” As A Contemporary Art Festival

The “FreierFest” festival was just that — a true festival consisting of six exhibitions, multiple lectures (mostly by Kyiv representatives, but also notable foreign...

Contemporary Art Shines Mirror To Ukrainian Society: Roma Gromov

In tandem with his artistic partner Dima Erlikh, Roma Gromov has been well known in Odessa’s art scene for quite some time. Besides creating...

An American Innocent Abroad Meets A New York Dandy In Odessa

Along with its hard-nosed skepticism, Odessa is renowned for an acerbic sense of humor, expressed most characteristically in iconic set-piece anecdotes. While most of...

Ukrainian Literature’s Boy Wonder Goes West

A profile of Ukraine’s most ambitious young writer. On the surface, Andriy Lyubka is hardly an intimidating presence. With his boyish face and long, sandy hair,...

The Odessa Review’s OIFF Diary: Day 7 — My Happy Family, A Young Girl...

My Happy Family, A Young Girl In Her Nineties, Spoor By Yevgeniya Seleznyova The last competition day was a perfect ending to the festival, with all...

Humor in Odessa: Traditions and Modern Times

Throughout the former Soviet Union, Odessa is considered the capital of humor. It’s unclear exactly how this came to be, but most people who...

On The 90th Anniversary Of Ukrainian Animation

Among the many other symbolic anniversaries of the year 2017, we also saw the celebration of the 90th Anniversary of the beginning of cartoon...

Technology in the Moldavanka

Everything new is just something old that has been well forgotten — even if we’re talking about the tech revolution. The State of Israel...

“Euromaidan. Rough Cut” Documentary Online Premiere

The international festival of documentary film about human rights Docudays UA begins the new season of online premieres at DOCU/PROSTIR (docuspace.org). For the anniversary...