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Conversations with filmmakers, artists, musicians, writers and the people building culture — in their own words.

Film Festival — Panel
Creativity Born of Limits — What Ukrainian Cinema Tells the World in Wartime
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Film Festival — Interview
“A Place That Draws People In” — Viktor Mashyka, Director of Grand Hotel Pylypets
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Ms&Mrs Art Ukraine — Feature
Art as an Inner Anchor — The Stories of the Ms&Mrs Art Ukraine Winners
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Film Festival — Recap
Where Algorithms Meet Art — NeoCinema AI International Film Festival 2026
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Film Festival — Recap
Cinema in the Heart of the Carpathians — Max Sir International Film Festival 2026
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Press Release — Film Festival
Max Sir International Film Festival Heads to the Carpathian Mountains — September 12–13, 2026
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Visual Art
The Visual Language of Resonance — Natalia Revoniuk on Painting What the Viewer Already Feels
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Visual Art & Music
Building a Universe From Line and Sound — Dmytro Yurchenko on Gothic Expressionism, Metal, and the Long Build
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The Jury — MSIFF 2026 — Exclusive Interview
Behind Every Award — Maksym Tuzhylin on Judging, Documentary, and Filming Zelensky for Netflix
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Literature
Where the Light Does Not Reach — Tetiana Kozelska on Writing War, Love, and the Truths That Live Underwater
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Music & Cultural Diplomacy
The Sound of Ukrainian Fantasy — Mariia Yaremak on Mythology, Cinema, and Building a New Musical Universe
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Literature
"Writing the Book Is the Easy Part" — Yaryna Zdorova on Self-Publishing and Ukrainian Literature
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Visual Art
Painting the Weight of the World — Nataliia Ivaniv on Heavy Impasto and the Memory of Water
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Contemporary Art
The Body as the Last Territory — Oleksandr McQuartz on Art, War, and the Right to Exist
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Art Management & Cultural Diplomacy
Art as a Bridge — Khrystyna Havrylenko on Ukrainian Culture, Lithuania, and the Work of Making People See
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Visual Art & Photography
The Dented Icon — Igor & Valera Golovniov on Painting What Nobody Wants to Look at Twice
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Literature
Between the Dig and the Page — Danylo Klochko on Archaeology, Science Fiction, and the Buried Stories of Ukraine
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Visual Art
Golden Threads of Memory — Nataliia Berezniak on Painting Bavaria Through Ukrainian Eyes
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Literature
The Bureau of Good Stories — Julia Kovalska on Finding Her Voice After Everything
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Culture & Neuroaesthetics
The Neuroaesthetics of Memory — Viktoriia Churkina on Art, Displacement, and the Science of Feeling
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Visual Art
Painting Without Opposites — Yuriy Akhmetzianov (YuGA) on Building a Philosophy of Non-Dual Symbolism
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Education & Social Entrepreneurship
Every Child Deserves a Chance — Iryna Savchenko on Building the Future of Inclusive Education
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Culture & Entrepreneurship
From a Volunteer Channel to a Cultural Ecosystem — The Story of Yuliya Morozova
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Documentary
"Heritage Becomes Part of Who We Are" — Yilin Lee on Telling the Story of a Place She Loves
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Documentary
"Cinema Is a Way of Understanding People" — Hanzi Zhu on Belief, Loneliness, and the Search for Meaning
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Animation
"Don't Live in a Bubble" — Hugo Martell on Fantasy, Trauma, and Growing Through Storytelling
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Film
The Iguana, the Portal and the Dream — Alexey Kashpersky on Making the Unexpected
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Film
Vampiric Memories — Russel Redl on Blood Magic, Trauma, and the Art of the Ultimate Outsider
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Film & AI
One Man, Zero Budget, 3.5 Hours — Alberto Zanini on Making a Film Alone with AI
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Film
Beyond the Dissonance — Yevhenii Leonovets on the Evolution of a Director in Search of a True Self
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Film
God Mode — Emil H. Jonsvik on the High-Stakes Rhythm of Digital Control and Independent Cinema
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Film & AI
The Digital Sorcerer — Mike Meier on the Ghost in the Machine and the Siphonophore of AI
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Animation
Pixels & Poise — Jonnie Semerad on Digital Craft and the Vulnerability of "The Boss"
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Film & AI
They Made Friends With AI — El Gaidai on the Future Nobody Saw Coming
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Film
Beauty, Silence, and Faith — Zhang Aixin on Seeing the World Differently
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Film
Chaos & Poise — Romi Banerjee on the Anatomy of a "Polite" Villain
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Film
"Don't Be a Victim" — Dana Silkiss on Labor Camps, the FBI and Cinema
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Film
"War Is a World of Victims" — Marcin Melcarek & Błażej Perka
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Film & AI
The Velvet Revolution — Jason Gottlieb on Drag, AI and Defying Fascism
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Documentary
From Stand-Up to Stolen Ground — Emilio Joe
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Film · Human Connection