Ukrainian film festival 2024:
Reflections

Ukrainian film festival 2024 Reflections The theme of this year’s festival is Reflections. This theme speaks about a search for oneself in challenging times, self-reflection and self-determination, the recognition of our past, and the acceptance of a present composed of countless fragments. This year, we dive into the majestic past of Ukrainian cinema and celebrate…

Ukrainian Film Festival 2023:
Side by Side

Ukrainian Film Festival 2023 Side by Side Side by Side, Ukrainian Institute London’s fourth annual Ukrainian Film Festival will present 5 screenings of feature, documentary, and short films, with each film providing a window into life in contemporary Ukraine, the astonishing resilience of its people, and the power of mutual support and solidarity in the…

Ukrainian Literature in Translation Prize Winner

Ukrainian Literature in Translation Prize Winner We’re delighted to announce the winner of this year’s Ukrainian Literature in Translation Prize, Daisy Gibbons, for her translation of extracts from Artem Chekh’s wartime diaries and Olha Matsiupa’s play Pilates Time.   “I’m so pleased that my translations are liked enough to have won an award. But what…

Ukrainian Film Festival 2022:
Ukraine Defiant

Ukrainian Film Festival 2022 Ukraine Defiant Ukraine has astounded the world with its defiance, resistance and unity. Those qualities were not cultivated overnight; they are rooted in Ukraine’s history and culture.  Ukraine Defiant, curated by the Ukrainian Institute London, showcases contemporary Ukrainian cinema – daring, challenging and unafraid of showing the reality of Russia’s ongoing…

Ukraine Lab

Khvostenko-Khvostov

UKRAINE LAB is an online writing residency for six emerging writers from Ukraine and the United Kingdom. In partnership with PEN Ukraine and the Ukrainian Institute, the Ukrainian Institute London will support the authors developmentally and financially to produce creative nonfiction pieces which will tackle global challenges through the prism of Ukraine. UKRAINE LAB is supported by the British Council under the UK/Ukraine Season of Culture 2022.

Istoria: an online course in Ukrainian history

This online course is for anyone who is interested in Ukrainian history. The course will discuss contested historical issues from the legacy of Kyivan Rus to contemporary perceptions of the Donbas. It will examine the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-21, the Holodomor, and the Second World War, looking at questions of individual survival, collective resistance and national culture.

London Ukrainian Review

London Ukrainian Review is a special publication of the Ukrainian Institute London. Dedicated to the three decades of Ukraine’s independence, it discusses the challenges of climate and sustainability, achievements in cinema, literature, academia, and the media, while looking ahead to what Ukraine has to offer to the world.

Ukrainian Institute London hopes that this special publication will grow into a journal of culture, ideas, and new writing that will tackle global challenges through the prism of Ukraine while adopting a distinctly internationalist perspective on the Ukrainian past and present.

Lesia Ukrainka at the British Library

On 16 November 2021, the Ukrainian Institute London, in partnership with the British Library, held an extraordinary event, discussing the work of Lesia Ukrainka. The speakers, Oksana Zabuzhko, Lucy Delap and Sasha Dovzhyk addressed what Oksana Zabuzhko called ‘a hole in European culture’ by situating the feminist and modernist writing of Lesia Ukrainka firmly in the European literary canon. 

Ukrainian Film Festival 2021:
Freedom on Screen

From 22 November until 6 December, the Ukrainian Institute London and Cambridge Ukrainian Studies welcome audiences to the 2021 Ukrainian Film Festival, Freedom on Screen. Showcasing a dynamic and diverse selection of documentary and feature films, the festival marks 30 years of Ukraine’s independent statehood by celebrating a spirit of creative freedom in contemporary Ukrainian cinema.