Upcoming Events

Thursday 19 February, 2026
19:00 - 20:30

Culture as security: how culture protects us

Join us for an evening of conversation exploring the ways in which culture protects, provokes and sustains societies. Together with a distinguished panel of speakers we will examine the role of culture in national security, the ways in which cultural narratives strengthen resilience, civic identity and democracy, and what it means when culture itself comes under attack.

Speakers:


  • Mariam Naiem

  • Yassmin Abdel-Magied

  • Charlotte Higgins

  • Kirsty Lang

Location:


British Library Pigott Theatre
96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB
London
NW1 2DB

Full price – £15.00
Concession – £7.50
Young person (16–25) – £6.00
Universal Credit / Pension Credit (ID required) – £6.00

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Tuesday 3 March, 2026
18:30 - 20:00

‘Ukrainian poetic cinema: the flowering and the tragedy’ with Vitaly Chernetsky | Kino 2026

Join the first seminar of our Kino 2026 programme on Ukrainian cinema. The seminar delves into the history of the rise and the tragic deliberate destruction by the Soviet state of a remarkable school of innovative filmmaking that arose in Ukraine in the early 1960s and came to be known as the Ukrainian poetic cinema.

Speakers:


  • Vitaly Chernetsky

Location:


ONLINE


£35 general

£25 student

Friends and Benefactors of the Institute are also eligible for a discount.

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Tuesday 10 March, 2026
18:30 - 20:00

‘The Great Break: Ukrainian Cinema in 1920–30s. From emancipation to Sovietisation’ with Ivan Kozlenko | Kino 2026

Join the second seminar of our Kino 2026 programme on Ukrainian cinema. In the late 1920s, Ukrainian cinema reached its peak: due to well-thought-out policies of local culture elites, a peculiar school of Ukrainian avant-garde film, led by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, arose alongside highly popular commercial cinema. However, the triumph didn’t last long. In 1930, the local film production was placed under the control of Moscow authorities with the aim of turning film into a means of propaganda.

Speakers:


  • Ivan Kozlenko

Location:


ONLINE


£35 general

£25 student

Friends and Benefactors of the Institute are also eligible for a discount.

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Tuesday 17 March, 2026
18:30 - 20:00

‘Queering Socialist Realism: Serhii Parajanov’s early Ukrainian films and his transition to poetic cinema’ with Olha Briukhovetska | Kino 2026

Join the third seminar of our Kino 2026 programme on Ukrainian cinema. Focusing on Serhii Parajanov and his landmark film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965), the session explores his pioneering role in Ukrainian poetic cinema, the political repression that led to his 1973 arrest and imprisonment, and the broader crackdown on Ukrainian dissident artists, examining the many forms of resistance expressed in his work.

Speakers:


  • Olha Briukhovetska

Location:


ONLINE


£35 general

£25 student

Friends and Benefactors of the Institute are also eligible for a discount.

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Tuesday 24 March, 2026
18:30 - 20:00

‘Dealing with Soviet reality: Kira Muratova’s films as a distorted mirror, smashed to pieces’ with Anna Onufriienko | Kino 2026

Join the fourth seminar of our Kino 2026 programme on Ukrainian cinema. Devoted to Kira Muratova, the session examines how her formally radical films dissect Soviet and post-Soviet reality, deconstruct rhetoric and hierarchy, and use editing as a central protagonist to reveal the nature of violence, absurdity, and trauma embedded in everyday life.

Speakers:


  • Anna Onufriienko

Location:


ONLINE


£35 general

£25 student

Friends and Benefactors of the Institute are also eligible for a discount.

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Tuesday 31 March, 2026
18:30 - 20:00

‘Filming turbulent times: is there a Ukrainian documentary wave after 2014?’ with Yuliia Kovalenko | Kino 2026

Join the fifth seminar of our Kino 2026 programme on Ukrainian cinema. The Revolution of Dignity and the beginning of the Russian aggression in 2014 opened a new page in the history of Ukraine, not only in political and social life, but also in cinema. The tragic events and turbulent struggle for democracy prompted the emergence of new names on the cinematic landscape—many people who tried to comprehend the events in the country around them through the lenses of cameras.

Speakers:


  • Yuliia Kovalenko

Location:


ONLINE


£35 general

£25 student

Friends and Benefactors of the Institute are also eligible for a discount.

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Tuesday 7 April, 2026
18:30 - 20:00

‘Ukrainian cinema of the 1990s: from free market to free fall’ with Stanislav Menzelevskyi | Kino 2026

Join the sixth seminar of our Kino 2026 programme on Ukrainian cinema. While we celebrate the independence of Ukraine on 24 August 1991, the processes that brought it about began much earlier and continue to evolve today. Ukrainian cinema in the late 1980s to early 1990s was a contradictory phenomenon—a spontaneous cinematic response to one of the most dramatic and unsettled periods in the country’s history, marked by a collision of hope and despair, fleeting exhilaration followed by deep disillusionment.

Speakers:


  • Stanislav Menzelevskyi

Location:


ONLINE


£35 general

£25 student

Friends and Benefactors of the Institute are also eligible for a discount.

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Tuesday 14 April, 2026
18:30 - 20:00

‘Survival mode: the Ukrainian cinema after 2022’ with Daria Badior | Kino 2026

Join the seventh seminar of our Kino 2026 programme on Ukrainian cinema. In this seminar, we will talk about the state of Ukrainian cinema since the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Ukrainian cinema was already sliding into a crisis in 2022, after two years of Covid, ongoing war, and the internal tensions within the industry.

Speakers:


  • Daria Badior

Location:


ONLINE


£35 general

£25 student

Friends and Benefactors of the Institute are also eligible for a discount.

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Tuesday 21 April, 2026
18:30 - 20:00

‘Ukrainian cinema from Maidan to 2022: rebirth in times of changes’ with Anthelme Vidaud | Kino 2026

Join the seventh seminar of our Kino 2026 programme on Ukrainian cinema. This seminar will explore the development of Ukrainian cinema over the decade from 2013 to 2022. After enduring two decades of crisis following the collapse of the Soviet studio system in the 1990s, Ukrainian cinema experienced a period of rebirth, driven by the revitalisation of the industry and shaped by the political upheavals in the country, starting with the Revolution of Dignity.

Speakers:


  • Anthelme Vidaud

Location:


ONLINE


£35 general

£25 student

Friends and Benefactors of the Institute are also eligible for a discount.

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Tuesday 3 March, 2026 - Tuesday 21 April, 2026
18:30 - 20:00

Kino 2026 | Ukrainian cinema: a century of innovation, struggle, and resilience | Full course

Join our Kino 2026 programme on Ukrainian cinema.

Speakers:


Location:


ONLINE


Full course:
£240 (early bird discount until 15 February)
£260 general (£180 student) — includes a Certificate of Completion, and full course materials

One seminar:
£35 general (£25 student) — includes course materials and video recording for the seminar attended

Friends and Benefactors of the Institute discounts:
Full course: £234 general (£162 student)
One seminar: £31.50 general (£22.50 student)

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