Svitlana Agrest-Korotkova

This director, whose name brought honor and glory to Ukraine, his second home, needs no introductions. Likewise, no advertisement is needed for his films, which not only represent the golden standard of cinema, but, more importantly, live in the hearts and minds of millions of his contemporaries....

Thanks to the efforts of the Embassy of Israel in Ukraine and active support of Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival, Ukraine will see Israeli cinema again.The program includes six films from the past few years, with two of them being past year and this year’s winners of the grand prix...

The walls of the Kyiv Philharmonic Society’s cozy hall are permeated with music. If they could talk, even 1,001 nights would not be enough to tell all the amazing stories about fantastic conductors, musicians, composers, singers. The posters that announce concerts featured names of world and...

The National Opera for the first time celebrated the Day of the King of Belgium. This holiday “Classics for peace” was organized by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium, and personally Luc Jacobs, Ambassador of Belgium to Ukraine, and the academic symphony orchestra INSO-LVIV (artistic...

One of the spectacular events of the 45th Kyiv International Film Festival “Molodist” was the screening of David Novack’s documentary Finding Babel. The film tells about a Soviet writer who was in the avant-garde of the literature life of that time, when an important role was...

The dwellers of the world of cinema respect this forum for its ability to open road to the cinema Olympus for talented debutants. It will please the audience with numerous competition and non-competition programs, retrospectives, and special screenings. The international programs are traditional,...

As a guest in Croatia at the invitation of friends, I discovered an extremely beautiful country, which went through a bloody war, proceeding to its establishment. It is rich in ancient monuments, generous land, and powerful, very specific, human resource. My stay there coincided with opening of the...

Frankly, it has been a long time since I saw as many people as at Oleksandr Dubovyk’s vernissage which took place at Shevchenko Museum. Artists, collectors, businessmen, scientists, doctors, and musicians were present there. They all are connoisseurs and admirers of his creative work.Artist,...

Those who visited sunny Georgia at least once will never forget its nature, so rich, colorful, and versatile. They will never forget the hospitality of wise Georgians, literary traditions, architectural masterpieces, among which they so seamlessly exist, and of course a special theater tradition...

The music festival of the largest scale, Kyiv Music Fest, for the 25th time invited its admirers to the presentation of new music. According to the intention of its ideologist and founder Ivan Karabyts, who this year would have turned 70, the forum had to  fully reveal to the audience all the...