One of Ukraine’s most important cultural institutions is under threat, say opponents of plans to reorganise Kyiv’s Dovzhenko Center.
The Center, founded in 1994 and named after one of the country’s most famous 20th-century film artists, director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, is dedicated to preserving Ukrainian film culture.
Its extensive archive houses copies of early Soviet-Ukrainian masterpieces including Dovzhenko’s ‘Arsenal’ (1929) and ‘Earth’ (1930), and the 1929 classic ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ by avant-garde director Dziga Vertov. Since 2015, it’s also been open to the public, with a film museum and library, performance space, and bookshop.
