Odesa Film Studio has published 414 feature films and series in its official YouTube channel. The films were made since 1918 and include established Soviet classics like ‘Spring on Zarechnaya Street‘, ‘Can’t Change the Meeting Place‘, ‘The Three Musketeers‘. There are also lots of underestimated pieces like a ‘The Port‘ (1984), a sea detective; ‘The […]
Yesterday, September 22nd, Ukrainian parliament has finally adopted the long-awaited-for and fiercely discussed legislation on State Support of the Film Industry. There about ten major changes in the playground most important of which is introduction of the 25% cash rebate system for all the service production projects including theatrical movies, TV series, commercials, music videos […]
Daria Ghai, a Ukrainian film director who studied filmmaking in India had launched a campaign on an Indian crowdfunding platform Wishberry to raise funds for her first feature film called ‘Three And A Half’ to be shot entirely in India. Her creative approach has proved to be successful. The campaign has reached its target of […]
This year Ukraine has already enjoyed a number of premieres, namely 14. The second half of the year will bring 7 more feature films of Ukrainian origin to the theatres. What’s intriguing here – we have one feature animation and one fantasy in the list. Here are the known release dates of the upcoming movies.
The Odesa International Film Festival finished and has awarded the winners. The jury have named ‘The Nest of the Turtledove’ by Taras Tkachenko the best film in Ukrainian competition. One of the main parts in the film was performed by Vitaly Linetsky, a famous Ukrainian actor who died before the movie was premiered.
National Dovzhenko Center has published a unique collection of movie posters from the epoch of VUFKU (All-Ukrainian Photo & Film Management Organization), from 1922 till 1930. VUFKU used to be the top film production company over the entire Soviet Union with an output of circa 30 feature films per year in the most prolific times. […]
The first ever Ukrainian sports drama will premiere in Ukraine this fall. Starring Vlad Nikityuk, Yevgen Galych, Oleksiy Gorbunov and Akhtem Seytablayev. The story goes about a former boxing coach who has to come back to profession and prepare his son for a champion’s fight. The movie is directed by Oleksiy Shaparev. Photography by Dmytro […]
Ukrainian singer Jamala wins Eurovision song contest in a highly emotional voting. Jamala is the first ever ethnic Crimean Tatar to perform at the contest. She caused much controversy before the show over her would-be political song, referencing the year when Stalin deported their ethnic group from its native region of Crimea in Ukraine.
An official teaser of the first Ukrainian fantasy movie ‘The Stronghold’ (Сторожова застава) released. The upcoming film is scheduled for December 22, 2016 in the theatres. The movie’s story is about a boy traveling back into ancient times where the heroes fight against mythical creatures and black magic. The movie features advanced visual effects done […]
The 13th International human rights documentary film festival Docudays.UA has opened in Kyiv on March, 25th and will last till April, 1st in the House of Cinema (Saksaganskogo, 6), Kyiv Cinema (Velyka Vasylkivska, 19) and Kinopanorama Cinema (Shota Rustaveli, 19). This year the audience will see 93 films from 43 countries from all over the […]
