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At the Venice Film Festival, a film titled “Russians at War” by Russian director Anastasia Trofimova, who has a Western education and previously made films for the propaganda holding RT (Russia Today), was shown. And there’s a lot wrong with that. Trofimova says she spent seven months in the combat zone in Ukraine with a Russian Armed Forces battalion, working […]

“We Were Recruits” by director Lyubomyr Levytsky has become one of the most successful documentaries in Ukrainian history. Released nationwide on May 2, the film was viewed by over 32,000 people in four weeks, earning more than 5.2 million hryvnias at the box office. This result is the second highest for Ukrainian documentaries, following “20 Days in Mariupol” by Mstyslav […]

The movie “Mavka. The Forest Song” will be shown in Ukrainian in theaters in the USA and Canada. The animated film “Mavka. The Forest Song” will be released in Ukrainian in May on the big screens of the United States and Canada. The Ukrainian State Film Agency announced this. The first screenings of the cartoon will take place: on May […]

Walking the red carpet with the siren on and a call to release the Ukrainian paramedic from Russian captivity: the film “Butterfly Vision” premiered in Cannes. The Ukrainian film “Butterfly Vision” was presented at the Cannes Film Festival. The premiere of the Ukrainian film “Butterfly Vision” took place in Cannes. 1+1 media reported about the ceremony of the film showing […]

“Olga”, a feature-length fiction film directed by Elie Grappe received the SACD Award for best screenplay at the 60th Semaine de la Critique (Critics’ Week), a section of the Cannes Film Festival. Co-produced by Switzerland and France, the film tells the story of a 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast who trains in Switzerland while her thoughts are with Ukraine where Euromaidan begins.  […]

This May, the feature-length documentary by Alina Gorlova “This Rain Will Never Stop” will screen in the U.S., in competition at the True/False Film Festival.  The story follows a young Red Cross volunteer, Andriy Suleiman. Born to a Kurdish father and a Ukrainian mother in Syria, he fled the war with his family, and settled in Lysychansk, in eastern Ukraine. […]

On January 1, 2021, the Canada-Ukraine Audiovisual Coproduction Treaty came into effect. “From now on producers from Canada and Ukraine can create wonderful films together, drawing on the support of both countries,” the Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine Larisa Galadza said. The treaty unlocks the opportunities for coproduced works available to national productions both in Canada and Ukraine including public funding, […]

“Anna”: Ukraninan short film to compete at the 2021 “Oscar” Academy Awards. Featuring interview with producer Olga Beshmelnitsyna. “Anna” a 15 minute short film directed by Dekel Berenson, an Isreaili born UK based writer and director, was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019. The campaign promoting the inclusion of the film at the OSCAR- 2021 awards in the […]

Ukrainian musical romance film “Hutsulka Ksenya” directed by Olena Demyanenko was awarded the Grand Prix at the Mt. Fuji - Atami Film Festival in Japan

Digital rights are at the center of the current edition of the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA taking place in Kyiv, Ukraine between March 22 and 30. “In 2012 a new term was coined – ‘digital rights’. Back then the Human Rights Council of the United Nations adopted a resolution stating that the same rights that people […]

Cannes Film Festival program “Un Certain Regard”, chaired by actor and director Benicio del Toro, awarded the prize for best director to Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa for the drama film “Donbass”.

Why did people of peaceful background volunteer to get to the front line? What was the war for them? What helped them to adapt to that “parallel reality”? Why is it so important for veterans to be heard? Answers to these questions can be found in the documentary “Voice of War.