Despite a history of important and successful productions, the industry has often been characterized by a debate about its identity, the level of Russian and European influence.[5] Ukrainian producers are active in international co-productions, while Ukrainian actors, directors and crew feature regularly in Russian (and formerly Soviet) films. Successful films have been based on Ukrainian people, stories or events, including Battleship Potemkin, Man with a Movie Camera, and Everything Is Illuminated.
The Ukrainian State Film Agency owns National Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Centre, film copying laboratory and archive, and takes part in hosting of the Odesa International Film Festival. Another festival, Molodist in Kyiv, is the only FIAPF accredited International Film Festival held in Ukraine; the competition program has sections for student films, first short films, and first full feature films from all over the world. It is held during the month of October every year.
Ukraine has had an influence on the history of the cinema. Ukrainian directors Alexander Dovzhenko, often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, as well as being a pioneer of Soviet montage theory, Dovzhenko Film Studios, and Sergei Parajanov, Armenian film director and artist who made significant contributions to Ukrainian, Armenian and Georgian cinema. He invented his own cinematic style, Ukrainian poetic cinema, which was totally out of step with the guiding principles of socialist realism.
On 10 March 2024, creators of a documentary film 20 Days in Mariupol were awarded with the Oscar in the category "Best Documentary Feature Film", the first Oscar in Ukraine's history.[6]
On the territory of Odesa Film Studio, there is a Museum of the Cinema, in which you can discover many interesting facts on the history of the cinema in general and history of Ukrainian cinema as a part. Here you can find historic materials, from the invention of cinema, to the postmodern, digital and avant-garde.
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The central executive body of cinematography in Ukraine is the Ukrainian State Film Agency (USFA). Together with the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, it is the largest investor in Ukrainian cinema and as of 2019 each of these institutions is investing about ₴500 million in Ukrainian film production.
Pokrov,[22] international festival of Christian Orthodox cinema, held in Kyiv (2003-)
Vidkryta Nich (Open Night),[23] festival of Ukrainian debut short films, held in Kyiv (1997-)
Kharkiv Siren Film Festival,[24] international festival of short feature films, held in Kharkiv (2008-)
Wiz-Art,[25] International Short Film Festival, held in Lviv (2008-)
VAU-Fest,[26] International Video Art and Short Film Festival, held in the town of Ukrainka in Kyiv oblast (2010-)
Kinofront,[27] festival of Ukrainian Z and indie movies (2008-)
Docudays UA,[28] international human rights documentary film festival, held in Kyiv with traveling programs around Ukraine (2003-)
Contact, international documentary film festival, held in Kyiv (2005-2007)
Berdiansk International Film Festival "Golden Brigantine",[29] festival of cinema made in Commonwealth of Independent States and Baltic countries, held in the city of Berdiansk (2011)
Irpin Film Festival,[30] International noncommercial festival of alternative cinema, held in the town of Irpin (2003)
Golden Pektorale,[31] International Truskavets Film Festival, held in the town of Truskavets
Crown of Carpathians,[32] Another International Truskavets Film Festival, held in the town of Truskavets
Mute Nights, Odesa, International silent film festival which is held in Odesa on the third week on June.
Kino-Yalta, festival of producer's cinema[33] (2003) organized together with the Russian government
Sunny bunny of the international student cinematography festival Molodist
Ukrainian Panorama of the international student cinematography festival Molodist
In 1987, Ukrainian engineer and animator Eugene Mamut together with three colleagues won the Oscar (Scientific and Engineering Award) for the design and development of RGA / Oxberry Compu-Quad Special Effects Optical Printer for the movie Predator.
In 2006, Ukrainian engineer and inventor Anatoliy Kokush was awarded two Oscars for the concept and development of the Ukrainian Arm gyro-stabilized camera crane and the Flight Head.
Film dubbing or subtitling in Ukrainian refers to the dubbing or subtitles of video products (movies, TV series, video games, etc.) in Ukrainian.
In 2010, one third of all films in Ukraine were Russian language subbed.[39] In 2019, a law was passed by the Ukrainian parliament assuring that all movies have dubbing or subtitles in the Ukrainian language.[40][41] In 2021, Netflix released their first feature film with Ukrainian dubbing.[42][43] Only 11% of Ukrainians oppose dubbing in films.[44]
Ukrainian dubbing actors
Since the founding of a Ukrainian dubbing in 2006 there was many recognizable voice actors dubbing Ukrainian, among which the most famous are Eugene Maluha (known as the voice of the Ukrainian Alfa from the same cult series) and Yuri Kovalenko (known as Ukrainian cheesecakes voice in the movie Cars - first full-length animated film-blockbuster, which was shown in Ukrainian cinemas with Ukrainian dubbing).
Ukrainian show business stars are also actively involved in dubbing in Ukrainian. A number of famous singers, including Oleg Skrypka and Ani Lorak, took part in the dubbing of the animated film Carlson, who lives on the roof (2002) . A number of celebrities worked on the cartoon Terkel and Khalepa (2004): Potap, Oleg Skrypka, Fagot and Fozzy (TNMK band), Foma (Mandry band), Vadim Krasnooky (Mad Heads band), Katya Chilly, Vitaliy Kozlovsky, Lilu, Vasya Gontarsky ("Vasya Club"), DJ Romeo and Stepan Kazanin (Quarter-95). In the cartoon Horton (2008) you can hear the voices of showmen Pavel Shilko (DJ Pasha) and Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Quarter-9); Zelenskyy himself contributed to the Ukrainian dubs of Paddington and Paddington 2 among other acting appearances prior to his presidential career.[45] The main characters of the film "13th District: Ultimatum" (2009) in the Ukrainian box office spoke in the voices of Yevhen Koshov (Quarter-95) and Andriy Khlyvnyuk (soloist of the group "Boombox").
World famous actors and actresses related to Ukrainians or Ukraine
