In 2025, the State Film Agency of Ukraine significantly expanded the list of films prohibited from distribution and public screening. In total, the restrictions affected seven titles, marking the highest number of bans since 2018.
The Golden Globe Awards were presented in Los Angeles last night, traditionally marking the start of the awards season in the US film and television industry.
French media have stressed an important clarification: the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy did not spend seven days in prison. He was held for approximately three weeks, or around 20 days, at Paris’s La Santé prison.
A large-scale fire broke out in a historic church in central Amsterdam, the Netherlands, reportedly linked to the use of fireworks. The blaze almost completely destroyed the Vondelkerk, a 19th-century landmark located near Vondelpark.
Greece has completed the first stage of a large-scale clean-up of university registers, removing 308,605 inactive students.
The year 2025 marked one of the most significant chapters in recent Swiss film history, with productions from the country gaining unprecedented visibility across major international festivals, streaming platforms and box offices.
Exactly 130 years ago, on 2 January 1896, Dziga Vertov was born — one of the most influential Ukrainian film directors and screenwriters of the 20th century, whose work played a decisive role in shaping the language of global documentary cinema.
Ukrainian artists Yuliia Gvilim and Zhenia Polosina have received international recognition at the World Illustration Awards 2025, one of the most prestigious global prizes in the field of illustration.
In December 2025, the Winterlights festival became the country’s central cultural and social event. The capital was transformed into a large-scale public space of light art, music, performances and Christmas markets, spreading across the city’s key square