Dmytro Desiateryk

Pavlo Kazarin (born December 3, 1983, in Simferopol, Crimean Oblast, Soviet Ukraine) is a Ukrainian political journalist, philologist, and literary critic. A 2005 graduate of Volodymyr Vernadsky Taurida National University, he has been in the media since 2004. Kazarin is an ICTV channel host,...

Den’s annual Photo Contest is open for submissions. Sounds formal, but in reality this is a great opportunity for people who regularly use their cameras. Below are some of the reasons why you should vie in this competition:• because it is one of Ukraine’s most prestigious events in...

This looks like an on-screen story of sorts.The young Kyivite Daria Gaikalova receives a bachelor’s degree in philosophy at Kyiv Mohyla Academy and then moves to Mumbai, the film capital of India, to teach a course of scriptwriting. She begins to make advertisements and shorts. And finally...

The Ukrainian Oscar Committee has chosen Serhii Loznytsia’s drama Donbas as the national contender for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award.The film, which deals with the events in the east of Ukraine and was created by Ukraine’s most-decorated contemporary filmmaker, bested...

Twenty seven years is too short a time for the formation of full-fledged national cinema, all the more so that our film industry began to be funded on a systemic basis as recently as five years ago. But this turned out to be enough to make a sufficient number of films that deserve being shown to...

The appointment of a new director of the Odesa Art Museum was one of the biggest artistic scandals this year. As is well known, a competitive selection was held for the position, and the famous Odesa-born artist Oleksandr Roitburd won it by one vote last December. His rivals were former director of...

“Where disinformation is named, it does not exist. Where it exists, it is not named.”This statement of French culturologist and philosopher Guy Debord could be used as epigraph to Serhii Loznytsia’s new film Donbas.Only one of this picture’s 13 novellas is not set in...

I’d long known about Ukraine’s first Anti-Terrorist Operation Museum in Dnipro before visiting it this year. It’s official title reads: “Museum [dedicated to] the Civil Feat of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast during ATO Events” and it is formally one of the Dmytro Yavornytsky...

We hope that this text by Dmytro Desiateryk will launch a thorough discussion about what exactly can be considered a product of Ukrainian culture. For example, is the “Ukrainianness” of a cultural product influenced by the language in which it was created? After all, there is still no...

The drama Touch Me Not (Nu Ma Atinge-Ma, Romania – Germany – Czech Republic – Bulgaria – France, 2018) became a real sensation of the last Berlinale, winning there both the Golden Bear for the best feature film and the award for the best debut.This...