Iryna Hordeichuk

Kyiv’s Second International Cinema Festival is over. The most “operative” “Left-Bank” journalists spoke about the quality of its competition program the other day after the forum was launched. Only one person in Kyiv was supposed to see it at that time. I beg your...

The world-famous film director Krzysztof Zanussi is completing the joint Ukrainian-Polish movie Serce na dloni (A Heart in Your Hand), starring the distinguished Ukrainian actor Bohdan Stupka. The co-producer from Ukraine is Oleh Kokhan from the SOTA Cinema Group. This fall the film will undergo...

Petro Bevza has baffled Kyiv’s artistic circles. Actually, the source of perplexity was his vernissage, which to the uninitiated is somewhat mysteriously called “TsKI, or Images of Slow Happiness,” the ancient Rus’ abbreviation of the word “board.” Icon painters called their works “boards” and...