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EXCLUSIVE: The Ukrainian Institute has lambasted the organizers of a prestigious German filmmaker residency program for inviting Russians and Belarusians to take part as well as Ukrainians, slamming the emergency program for the “perpetuation of both an outdated Soviet perspective and Russia's colonial logic.” In a…

Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield have been unveiled as the seven shortlisted UK cities to battle it out to host next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The UK has taken on hosting duties from Ukraine, which won Eurovision 2022 but is unable to host due to the war with Russia. The…

The shortlist of UK cities being considered to host next year's Eurovision Song Contest will be announced today – with an unlikely contender joining the bidding. While cities including Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Liverpool, Glasgow and Brighton are on the list of those who've applied for the hosting gig, a less…

EXCLUSIVE: An anthology series about the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is in the works from Red Arrow Studios International and FILM.UA. Those Who Stayed is aiming to showcase the work of one gifted Ukrainian filmmaker per episode, with Koza Nostra writer Anastasia Lodkina showrunning. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Ukraine’s battle against invading Russian forces is now in its sixth month, and the country’s filmmakers remain determined to document the horrors facing its people. The Organization of Ukrainian Producers (OUP) has finished filming documentary Mariupol. Unlost Hope, which tells the stories of ordinary…

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award-nominated Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom producer Den Tolmor is creating a feature based on Wali, the Canadian ‘lone wolf’ sniper who spent the first two months of the Ukrainian war fighting the Russians. Provisionally titled The Good Fight, Tolmor, who has spent much time filming…

Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova told a gathering of Washington politicos and media types that the Russian invasion has been a “game changer” in which “the freedom of press and freedom of expression and the freedom of speech suddenly became an existential need.” She was speaking at a fundraiser…

EXCLUSIVE: The Ukrainian Film Academy and House of Europe have launched a landmark pair of initiatives designed to help Ukrainian creatives who have been affected or displaced by the war, with Netflix providing support. Both launch today and are targeting Ukrainian creatives based anywhere, many of whom have been…

The European Union's Court of Justice has overruled a bid by the French branch of Russian-state-controlled international news network Russia Today (RT) to overturn a measure prohibiting it from broadcasting across the bloc. The Council of the European Union banned the network on March 1, just days after Russia’s…

The UK will officially host Eurovision 2023 and the search to “find a host city to partner with” is on. In the past few minutes, BBC Director General Tim Davie has said the public broadcaster will take up the mantle, after British singer Sam Ryder finished second to Ukraine in this year’s contest, but with Ukraine…

Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian journalist who daringly interrupted a live TV broadcast to protest her country's invasion of Ukraine, was briefly detained by Russian authorities for a second time over the weekend. News of her arrest broke Sunday on her Telegram account after friends posted that she had been picked up…

The spectre of the war in Ukraine loomed large at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on Tuesday as it hosted the annual Work in Progress showcase of the Ukrainian Odesa International Film Festival (OIFF). In its 13th edition, the showcase normally takes place within the framework of the OIFF, which…