Ukrainian Doc Preview 2020: new opportunities for documentary filmmakers The Ukrainian Institute and DocudaysUA festival will partner to conduct The Ukrainian Doc Preview 2020, a showcase designed for the promotion of the Ukrainian film industry. The programme will take place the second time in 2020 during the industrial platform of the Docudays festival. The Ukrainian…
Closing Concert of the Bilateral Cultural Year Austria-Ukraine 2019 On 20 December 2019, the concert on the occasion of the finale of Cultural Year Austria-Ukraine 2019 will take place at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine with the performance of the Austrian and Ukrainian soloists. Ukraine and Austria conclude the bilateral cultural year 2019 with a…
10 film projects from Ukraine were introduced at the world’s biggest documentary festival IDFA Ukrainian producers and film directors were pitching their movies at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, which took place from 20 November to 1 December 2019. The participation of the Ukrainian delegation was organised jointly by Docudays UA, Ukrainian state film…
On 5-20 December 2019, the Austrian Film Institute will hold the screening of Kira Muratova’s films under the bilateral Year of Culture Ukraine-Austria 2019.The retrospective is organised by the Ukrainian Institute and Dovzhenko Centre jointly with the Austrian partners. When Kira Muratova died last year, her chosen native land Ukraine lost the country’s undisputed master…
Volkstheater in Vienna hosted teenagers from Donbas and ethnic songs with Zhadan’s poems Two-day festival “Ukrainian November” held on the stage of Volx / Margareten, one of the scenes of the VolkstheaterOn November 15-16, Austrian and Ukrainian audiences visited the Ukrainian documentary play “The City with Me” by director Georg Genoux and the concert with…
Belvedere speaks Ukrainian from now on Since November 1, an audioguide in Ukrainian language has become available in the Belvedere museum, Vienna. The project “Ukrainian Audio Guides in the World Leading Museums” is a part of the long-term initiative of the Ukrainian Institute to introduce Ukrainian-language audio guides in leading museums of the world. The…
Call for professional theatres to participate in the 7th International Festival of Ukrainian Theatre “East-West” The festival will take place from 19 to 27 April 2020 in Krakow, Poland. Open call for professional theatres to participate in the 7th International Festival of Ukrainian Theatre “East-West” (Międzynarodowy Festiwal Teatru Ukraińskiego Wschód-Zachód), which will be held from…
The famous “Fall On Pluto” will be staged in Cologne for the first time, with the support of the Ukrainian Institute. From 9 to 12 October 2019, an independent theatre project “Fall On Pluto” by screenwriter and director Sasha Brahma will take place at the urban festival URBÄNG in Germany.Pluto is the most distant planet in…
Mariologia — a dialogue with sacred texts and cultural memory The Ukrainian ensemble Alter Ratio performed in a Viennese church of the late 19th century. On November 5, Kyiv’s vocal contemporary ensemble Alter Ratio performed its Mariologia concertUkrainian composers Sviatoslav Lunyov, Maksym Kolomiets, Oleksiy Retynsky, and Maksym Shalygin re-thought medieval religious texts dedicated to the…
Ukrainian Baroque in Vienna As a part of the bilateral Year of Culture Ukraine-Austria On November 2, the orchestra “Open Opera Ukraine” performed its first overseas concert under the direction of Austrian-Ukrainian conductor Ilia Korol“Ukraine and Austria: Baroque Meetings” concert performed by Open Opera Ukraine combined vocal and instrumental works of the two countries to…
Ukrainian Female Artists at the UN Palace in Geneva Ukrainian Institute and UN Women in Ukraine invited painter Alevtina Kakhidze, Director General of Art Arsenal (Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex) Olesya Ostrovska-Lyuta, and Ukraine’s writer and philosopher Oksana Zabuzhko to join the UN regional meeting in Geneva. Oksana Zabuzhko, Alevtina Kakhidze, and…
Український Тиждень у Гданську On 7-16 November, Gdansk will host Ukrainian week, offering to visitors a variety of concerts, performances, film screenings, art installations and many more. The Ukrainian Institute developed the theatrical and jazz programme of the festival in cooperation with the Consulate of Ukraine in Gdansk, which initiated this annual festival four years…