Discover Ukraine

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 15-23 July 2016, Odessa will for the 7th time host the International Film Festival.

Ukraine in the world archives: Breaking Russian myths in infographics of 1914-1919. Lenin was right when he said that «Soviet Russia can’t exist without Ukraine». Breaking Russian myths and perversion of information: in 1918, Ukraine (UPR) proclaimed that it separates from Russia and becomes an independent state. To tell the world about a new country UKRAINE, Bucharest published a colorful […]

After analyzing the genomes of the ancient inhabitants of Ireland, the researchers concluded that the ancestors of the Irish people came from Eastern and Southern Europe. First of all, from the northern Black Sea coast, the south of present-day Ukraine, reports the BBC.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Réka Bucsi is a young animation filmmaker from Hungary. Her graduation work “Symphony no.42” has a vast list of festival achievements that include entering the Academy Awards shortlist in 2014.

Cultural and architectural heritage of Lviv attracts thousands of tourists each year. Lviv’s urban daily life is visible mostly to its residents

For the first time Ukraine was mentioned in the Hypatian Chronicle. Not Little Rus’ or something else, but Ukraine. Nobody heard about Moscow and Russia at that time. Learn more impressive historical facts. The Chronicle includes several components: Lavrentian Chronicle, the Tale of Bygone Years, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Galician–Volhynian Chronicles which described the events from 860’s to 1292’s. Sources of the chronicles […]

On 30 March Ukraine’s first agency of a kind – Lviv Film Commission was presented at the DocuDays film festival in Kyiv. Olha Reiter, its founder and director explained what the tasks, plans and first achievements of the newly established agency are.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Is it possible to combine the world-known classical music with a modern video art performance? Yes. How does it look like? Perfect! This story is about the most amazing visual representation of music that was 100% made by Ukrainians and in Ukraine.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] When it comes to Ukrainian fashion on an international scale, one might not instantly think of Mercedes-Benz Kiev Fashion Days, but definitely should.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Fourteen Ukrainian short films produced over the recent years competed for a prize within the first edition of the uFilmFest – first International Short Film Festival that took place in Kyiv on 12-13 February.  

On 11 December “Crawling Border” Georgia’s international exhibition opened at Izolyatsia artistic space in Kyiv. The project represented Georgia at la Biennale di Venezia earlier this year, Ukraine is the first destination it traveled to after the biennial ended.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]There is definitely room for short films in Ukraine. Fourth ‘100 Films in 100 Minutes’ took place in Kyiv, as part of Kyiv International Short Film Festival (KISFF).