[000:00:00;00] an exhibition together with the russians, to make a performance together with the russians or to share some prize together with the russians, most of the ukrainian cultural figures still refuse but there are those who agree, there are many discussions about what should be done more correctly because well , for example, there would not be such a wonderful speech by oleksandra matviychuk if she did not agree to share the nobel peace prize together with the russians and the belarusians, we will talk about it today, but now we will talk about something more pleasant, for example, about the fact that yevhen is a minor the photographer received his next award and it is surely the most prestigious award for photographers in the world. it is called the world press photo in general. this is about this photo . it is very famous both in ukraine and in the world . it shows iryna kalinin. she was 32 years old and it was all after

e bombing of the maternity hospital by the russians in mariupol, unfortunately, rena did not manage to survive as well as her child, the jury members decided to unite the four strongest from their point of view of work. here is such a joint category with the name global winners in addition to work yevhena maloletki has also included other quite interesting dramatic photos, for example, this is the price of peace in afghanistan, a nurse, it shows 15-year-old khalil akhmat, his parents sold his kidney for 3.5 thousand dollars because they did not have money to buy food, and well babajanyan this is her work , broken waters, about the competition between tajikistan and kyrgyzstan, uzbekistan, kazakhstan, questionable water, as well as a photo by mehmed mahdi about the egyptian region of alexandria and the community

that lives there near the water, the water level is constant rises and they have to move. the authorities forced them to move, but they lose their culture in this way, so many, many residents of the local region prefer to stay in place, although with the risk of often losing their lives. they were simply showered with various awards over the past year and this year. mstislav chernov also shot the film 20 days in mariupol and received simply an extremely large number of positive reviews, almost one hundred percent on various sites are with these by audience reviews, almost every review is positive. let's listen to an excerpt. moreover, this film recently received

the audience's favorite prize at the santos festival. well, the jury members of the bokriv award announced their short list, and unfortunately andriy kurkov and his novel lviv touring by hendricks were not included in it. in long lists, but i drink, there is nothing to be upset about, i think because he also received a lot of different awards during the past year, and after all, how i used to get into different lists, for example gray bees made it to the list of the best books of 2022 from the fall of new york. be sure to read these two books if you haven't read them yet . and regarding and what happened to this extremely dramatic, complex and long-lasting case , let me remind you that in 2021, october 21-

in october of the same year, he accidentally killed the cameraman of ukrainian origin, galina gutchens, on the set of the movie rust, and at that time , court cases are ongoing. now , in their statement, the prosecutors have dismissed the charges against him. they say that in connection with the discovery of new facts, but they warn that when they check them, they can reopen the case in general, so far in this story, only dave gold has suffered his punishment - this is the first assistant director he was given six months of probation, fine courses and community service for only 24 hours, everything is very fertile because alekbol alone blames part of the film crew part of the film crew blames alik bolduy for all this revolves around the improper preparation of weapons for the filming of the same alec golden previously with his lawyers asked

reject the lawsuit from the parents and sister of galina hudgens, they say that they did not have emotional and physical contact with her, that is, and also the actor reached an agreement with the cameraman's husband , now he is the director or producer of the film, and also receives part of the profits, and if it is, of course, because a- and who knows how this scandal will affect the box office . well, i will say that filming has resumed, even if there are many skeptical opinions about it, we will definitely follow this case. and now , just an incredible story from egypt, because the egyptians were so offended by netflix on this resource that the local lawyer mahmut al-samari even filed a lawsuit against this online cinema. played by the british adele

james and she is of african origin, this upset many egyptians because it does not correspond to the historical truth, because the puppets were of greek origin , they say, and here is another part of the conventional iranian well, the actress del james has already managed to be offended. i understand it to say that they don’t. watch it if something doesn’t suit you, but the lawyer mahmut al-samirov already says that netflix is ​​destroying the egyptian identity. he is supported by an archaeologist in the 19th century. avas smeared netflix with false information about our country and time. payback will come, netflix will say they will respond to this, the producer of the series jada pinkid smith, who says that it is not known for sure who cleopatra's mother was, and maybe she was

egyptian or even from another region of africa that's why our series says she will, well, in general, i will say that, of course, all these stories about er issues of self-identification are very important and must be taken into account in civilized societies, but on the other hand, there is a clear tendency in feature films not just to not follow historical authenticity, but on the contrary, all kinds of it to violate, we can remember at least take jokes this super popular series where, well, english aristocrats are played by actors of african or indian origin, for example, but here we are talking about a documentary. the series here are already completely different history, but less, but it is very interesting how these events will develop further and how cinematography and the tools used by directors will be reinterpreted. well, now let's return to our scandals, which cease to be scandals, as far as i'm concerned. it's about

the history of language, lawyer ksenia prokonova from odesa wrote a sufficiently resonant post on facebook, where she reported that her relative and a teacher of the odesa theater art college was dismissed from his job because of the russian language, let's listen, they were dismissed in odesa teacher for the russian language sounds like in kyd, if this had not happened in my family , among the students there was someone who wants to limit his educational horizon at the expense of russian composers, the student absolutely seriously refused to listen to tchaikovsky , rachmaninov and others, later filed a complaint that 82- a year-old teacher leads a lesson in zoom in russian. i read almost all the comments . it seems to me that somewhere around 95 percent of the commentators absolutely do not support ms. ksenia's indignation

, even accusing her of being manipulative sentences like they were fired for speaking russian, but these are other arguments that the teacher made, he broke the law, well, he broke the law , the student tried to stop it, then another argument about the fact that a lot of cultural figures abroad are now convincing their colleagues to cancel russian culture, or rather not like that and kenselets - it sounds very rude for europeans to stop, put russian culture on pause, they are convinced that russia actually uses culture for propaganda purposes, and culture also kills , they say that in ukraine they can, er, chekhov to defend tchaikovsky, well, one more argument that, well, you know, if a teacher in his 80s managed to learn and zoom and youtube , but did not manage to learn the ukrainian language, then it all looks strange, i will say that there is a lot , well, you yourself know this without me of ukrainian celebrities, ukrainians in russian-speaking

countries switched to the ukrainian language, some easier, some more difficult, but they switched and in the end all these views of active protection of the russian language. they are becoming more and more marginal. i want to show you an excerpt from an interview with a recent e more about astafieva, a playboy model, a representative of ukrainian show business, who also switched to ukrainian at the beginning of the full-scale war. many people did not expect this from her, but she is now actively promoting this transition and gives a lot of arguments that can be said in defense of her position. for example what does she propose to say in response to these frequent arguments that look at how many language warriors she is now at the front, please give these guys who protect us and speak russian time, because they

who are switching to the ukrainian language, and i am sure that these are people who have found time to overcome their doubts, overcome their desire and break themselves. well, now let's go directly to the topic of this reconciliation of ukrainians and russians, or rather, the desire of many europeans to reconcile about all ukrainians and russians and too many artists , so let's go through the recent refusals of ukrainian cultural figures to cooperate with the russians in one way or another, to participate with them in on the same platforms in any way serhiy maldukov illustrator i think that you you know him well, here are his works, and they are wonderful, they are bright, optimistic, there are caricatures, there are funny, there are lyrical works, and these paintings were often very well received by various world publications, and serhiy meidukov was definitely very a-a actively contributed to, let's say, our informational cultural

struggle, and here he was offered to receive to receive the prize and the erich maria remarque peace prize, but there is one moment , it was necessary to receive it with a russian writer on a crowded street well, serhii refused with the following arguments for me it was a surprise that i was chosen, i received a letter about a month ago, at first i said that i would come another time, in the subsequent correspondence i wrote that i would not come at all, i want to put most of the money in a monobank where i am collecting for a car for the armed forces, and i want to say a few words to you about the position of the organizers of this award and this is what the doctor, professor and chairman yuriy of this award says, suzanne mansel ridil, this is yours, her last word should be the language of humanity, which also unites the people of warring states, war

should not drown out the language of literature and of art that's it, well, i was confused as to what is called culture outside of politics, what can i say about the writer lyudmila summer summer, that's probably how she should be called in general, in general, she was quite active before and against the putin regime and was in the opposition, now her books are banned in russia she herself moved to berlin. or rather, her son is her condition to move. but at the same time, we also know this story very well, that she said it more than once, that ukrainians and russians are close peoples, even that ukrainians and russians are family, we are very closely related, she asks not ken you russian culture because the culture says she is not guilty of anything and this is completely different from what the ukrainian cultural diplomats say well, the third such story is the third, but not the last, she asks not to demand from

russian artists to express their a political position, because she says that a political position is a personal matter for everyone , she said in an interview with ichevel that i believe that an artist is an artist. i believe that an artist, like every person, has the right to have his or her own point of view in the political sphere, and the artist, in fact, he is considered according to the results of his activity, if his activity is worth showing to the world . therefore, you need to work with him, if it is not worth it , then you don't need to. and a person's political views are his personal matter and another interesting point, well , in general, what kind of interview do you take all the good russians like, you must know what the hell they are saying. is it bound to happen? here is one of those public discussions in berlin. it took place, and there the street girl talks about her happy life, that

she did not fall into big wars, but wars in in russia, there were always events happening somewhere on the periphery of the soviet union, they were small warriors so that she almost did not notice them, even more so, even this current war in ukraine, this incredible scale of aggression, she also tends to call , well, you know, such a small war , let's listen to it well, after all, there were after all. there was hope for a great war, we are no longer sure that it will not happen, now there is no certainty about this, i would like to somehow pass this threat to us, but it depends on how to understand the phrase "great war" in general but in fact there is already a big war going on, but i still want to call her small. another characteristic is that i noticed that mrs. ulitska and many others, these russian liberals who have gone to other countries, very often avoid calling putin putin. well , ulitska, for example, in several interviews

i watched them, and she says our ruler, our leader, this person, and so on, and so on. well, you know, we recently laughed with ani lorak, who called the war not a war, but very funny knocked what happened to this situations and so on and so on, but here it turns out that in some situations ani lorak and various russian intellectuals in principle come to the same point , the russian political scientist and economist kateryna shulman, for example, commented on the post of a russian journalist, and he wrote about the fact that she thinks that russians do not feel enough, or at all , almost never feel this guilt for what is happening in ukraine, so she goes in

the comments and writes such a post and let's go let's just appreciate the level of the metaphor. our neighbor's house burned down. our sewer broke. as they say, only the neighbor's house hurts, but they will rebuild it as a group. it's clear . and we are forbidden to even plan repairs. floats well, let's return now to these refusals, arik weisman , a ukrainian artist refused to exhibit in a newly created gallery in germany, created in particular by marat gelman, when arik found out that marat gelman was there and that he would be the curator of this project he said no, i don't allow you to use his paintings, this is a series that he made by zorokrem and with the help of artificial intelligence, it is called repentance and here weisman says that i don't want, first of all, to make such an exhibition this is such a series of paintings from the other side he on the website i did not find any mention of that and who will hear this

repentance, and also this date is the name of the short film nadiya parfan will not go to the go shop festival or indy with boa well , for now, two festivals because they participate there the russians and director nadiya parfan, other members of the film crew wrote an open letter, they claimed that russian films are currently being used by the russian authorities in one way or another in propaganda, and to include them in the program is to promote propaganda, and i will also say that the cannes film festival was a scandal on our nose do you remember last year and it was grandiose because kirill serebrynnikov, for example, at a press conference began to declare that let's remove sanctions from abramovich and let's sympathize and he even had to help with money the widows of the unfortunate russian

villages of soldiers , because they are also victims . and now they are saying that another picture by serydneykova will also be in the competition program. situation and i will emphasize once again that in the cultural community there is still no single decision to go to the festival where russians participate or not to go because very often opinions changed and our cultural figures came to the conclusion that after all we have there are very few or no artists at all who could bang on the door and say you know we will not participate in your event together with the russians and that the russians were asked to leave and ukrainians were asked to stay there is no such thing so conditionally speaking we are not we see what, for example, this award is a remark from the members of the jury they said no give everything serhiy

meydukov please don't refuse our award, we will ask lyudmila in the summer well, okay, to delete it, we will not give her this award, only you leaving us like this there is not, and we see that ukrainian culture is far from having the weight that russian culture has, because the soviet union and russia invested an incredible amount of money both directly in art and in establishing ties. therefore, this process of shifting is very very difficult, and in particular also because we see that the state has completely removed itself from this process, neither the ministry of culture nor the state agency for cinema does almost anything, moreover, in a recent interview with me, the deputy head of the state cinema, maryna kudarchuk, maksym oleksandrov said that he doesn't see any problems abroad at all, no culture war. let's put it this way, we won't lose

information at all. kate, but the opinion of our cinematographers is, unfortunately, now you will hear my conversation with the producer olga bez khmelnytsky. it's called the rule of two walls, the documentary is in june, we will participate in the new york tribeca festival - this is a very, very good story, this is a tape about our artists, about bob bass and about the propallindrome kinder album, who somehow tried after the full-scale invasion, to cope with this film, as olya told me, it also talks about ukrainian identity, let's listen to olya, because i talked with her in particular about this political situation, after making this project, we realized that its main audience, to which we want to convey it, is western audience and therefore in post-production we already understood that we

need to involve as many partners as possible who will help us to present this film in the most resonant and large-scale way and since from the very beginning when we were creating the project we said about the fact that in any of his promotions , we want to help ukraine, that is, to raise money to donate, we were looking for such a partner who already has a name and who actively helps ukraine, and that 's why we got to meet the left puck player and he was watching a movie the hour has already impressed her and he said that he is ready and wants to be an ambassador of the project and help us precisely with its presentation and at international festivals, markets and the promotion of this film

. that's why we take a palindrome because it's interesting. is it known there how it all happened? no. in fact, everything turned out quite intuitively . our director, where the reviews were when he arrived, he read about the beautiful mytsko and ah, um, the lviv municipal center, which sheltered at the beginning of the war a lot of artists and where he came to meet lada and it turned out that palindrome is her boyfriend and somehow , starting to film laya, we met palindrome and then all the other artists are those who participate in the project. were forced to move to lviv and evacuating from other cities and that's how we came across such a cluster of artists and the first creative reflections of the war back in april last year

i have a question you are more it is at various film festivals and uh well now there are a lot of pessimistic ones our conversations in the community, in principle, in the artistic community of people who are engaged in cultural diplomacy that russia will definitely win in this on the cultural front does not sound very cool , but less with the fact that the russians act much more powerfully, they have more money and it is very difficult for us to break this whole history of europeans' ideas about russian cinema about russia, it's all created by the eyes of many years of myths, hmm, what do you think , how should we act in general, how should we use cinema, because i hear from one side opinions about that we are worried about how we are perceived abroad and we want to do something so that this perception

changes, somehow fight with this myth that dispels created about ukraine as a province and so on from the other side in the production of which in serious cinema it is not customary to talk about ideology or propaganda because cinema is an act of art as the director sees it and it is like that sometimes it seems to me that these two points of view in our conditions are now a little contradicting each other and how do you think we can combine all this, do you know here i believe that quantity will at some point turn into quality and the main thing today is the representation of ukrainian cinema and ukrainian artists abroad that there should be many of us, we should be everywhere, we should talk in different ways about what we

are doing about our projects and here i am i believe that the main thing is that this is our narrative, what we are promoting, that is, we still need to go into some kind of mass in our statements today , this is really a problem that we all have faced. participation in industrial sites, and for it to be effective, the authors must be there . it so happened that in our country there are a lot of authors - these are men who, unfortunately, cannot leave ukraine in any way. it turns out that we are already underrepresented in the projects we are just planning, the same applies to films created by a-a as a person who has been representing ukrainian cinema at film festivals for many years . and this is a completely different perception. i am an author group when there are people who directly participated in the film and when we want

resonance when we want to have loud premieres and for it to resonate with the audience and the media and everyone, we have to be there, we have to talk about it and today it seems to me that we need to act in a radically different way that all ukrainian artists should get an easier opportunity to travel, especially to such significant events where they present ukrainian projects and especially to those countries where this is where this area is perfected, so it seems to me that the strategy of the state and the strategy of our institutions responsible for culture should be radically different, i understand that now it is very bad, as well as the state cinema , the ministry of culture, information policy is, to put it mildly, not very helpful in this

process, because i recently had an interview the deputy head of the state cinema ozim oleksandrov said that we don't have any problems abroad. we won't lose anything. everything here is great, that is, they have a slightly different idea of ​​how serious this lack of support is now with state institutions. it is quite weighty, that is, as far as i know, the refusal in favoring departure many times more than e-e approvals, some measures our institutions do not consider to be important in their opinion they should leave the authors, but here i do not agree with them because it is difficult to assess the possibility in at today's moment, the importance of certain industrial sites will be clear. hmm, if i say this for projects that are just being launched and are only looking for funding for this, it is an opportunity for them to find partners and resources for projects that

have already been created, this is additional pr, it is impossible to present the film well if there is no there are no heroes, they don't give out interviews to everyone, they don't go on radio, on television, these are completely different challenges, the same as all these projects that today we are demonstrating or showing to our aunts and uncles in another way, they have the opportunity to help the armed forces of ukraine, either by direct donations or by the pressure on civil society by talking about the history of the war in ukraine, that is why this whole array must be significant. it must be in all spheres, we must see it at every artistic event of ukrainian artists today, here are all the recent trips where i have been and presented films . it is felt compared to last year. this is such a catastrophic decrease in our

representativeness. this was olga bezhmelnytsia, a producer who is currently preparing my next tape the rule of two walls to participate in the new york festival of the trunk with you i say goodbye to you stay with espresso and have a good evening in ukraine 17:00 news time on the espresso tv channel in the studio of iryna koval i congratulate all viewers there are diplomatic developments bulgaria unlocks trucks with agrarian of products from ukraine at the border, they will also be unloaded there, such a decision was reached during the meeting.