Serhii Trymbach

The forum was called “Parajanov Festival in Levandivka.” For a week, one of Lviv’s neighborhoods was witnessing a second edition of an international scale act in which the great artist’s image brought together various arts and various people.WHAT’S IN A FESTIVAL?...

It will be reminded that after a year break, the Ukrainian Oscar Committee has started operating again. As is known, it has undergone certain structural and organizational transformations, and now the moviemakers who are part of the world cinema process and know well its nuances are members of the...

Can you tell where the “Shadows” are in the film, which is over 50 years old? And where actually are there the forgotten ancestors? Why did Kotsiubynsky call his story like this anyway?Ivan Mykolaichuk, leading star of the film, once explained it to me like this: the writer, as well as...

Regretfully, Rollan Serhiienko is not a loud name in our cinema. But according to his merits, he is in the first cohort of Ukrainian filmmakers. His films include several fiction films, such as White Clouds, Happiness of Nykyfor Bubnov, debut short films Cards. But most of them are non-fiction...

On this occasion, an anniversary premiere of the restored version of the film will take place at the same movie theater, “Ukraine” (Kyiv). The anniversary organization committee, led by Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Culture Viacheslav Kyrylenko, has planned other events as well....

Recently a presentation of the book Oleksandr Dovzhenko. Notes from the diary. 1939-1956 (published by Kharkiv publishing house “Folio”) took place at the Central State Archive of Literature and Art. This is the joint work of Russian and Ukrainian cinema critics and archivists. The...

Writing about sculpting is quite strange for me, even though I have done a bit of it myself. My home movie collection has been linked to sculpture for a long time. Suffice it to mention Ivan Kavaleridze who came to cinema from sculpture and brought a lot with him, or Oleksandr Antypenko who...

Ivanko was born on June 15, 1941, a week before the war started. Little wonder Mykolaichuk believed that he had been born twice. As Nazi bombs came showering down a week later, not everyone survived. This may have taken away the bulk of his vital energy – why else would he leave this life...

The film that Ukrainians have heard and read so much about was screened first in Kharkiv and then in Kyiv, on April 16 and 17. Katyn is the latest film by the legendary Andrzej Wajda, a classic of the Polish and international cinema. Wajda is an extraordinary personality, who is still actively...

The memorable opening of the exhibit of artworks by the noted Ukrainian filmmaker Serhii Paradzhanov took place at the National Art Museum of Ukraine. The show features 55 works on loan from the Serhii Paradzhanov Museum in Yerevan. There are artists whose world is revealed only through their...