The Cannes Film Festival has returned to its usual state, with crowds and the usual business of the festival market. However, the festival has faced challeng...

The article discusses the various controversies surrounding the Cannes Film Festival. In previous years, scandals related to sexism and women's rights have b...

The article discusses the recent siege of Mariupol, a Ukrainian port town, by the Russian army. The town is the hometown of the Azov Battalion, which has a p...

Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has risen to the occasion as a wartime leader in the face of Russia's aggression. Despite expectations of a quick co...

The author recounts their experience in Kyiv leading up to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. They describe the mix of anxiety and indifference among the ...

In recent years, Vilnius has become a safe haven for political exiles from Russia and Belarus, including opposition leaders like Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and...

The article reports on the aftermath of the beheading of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty in a Paris suburb, a crime tied to his lesson on freedom of speech ...

The author discusses the current wave of statue removals and protests taking place in America and Western Europe, challenging the practice of judging histori...

The appointment of Russian filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovsky as the artistic director of the Babyn Yar Memorial Center in Kyiv has sparked controversy. The Babyn Y...

DAU, a long-gestating film project by Ilya Khrzhanovsky, initially a biopic of physicist Lev Landau, morphed into a massive anthropological experiment. The f...