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Atlas Weekend
The second weekend of July will bring Atlas Weekend, an annual music festival in Kyiv. This year the organizers promise to attract a wide audience thanks to the headliners: A$AP Rocky, The Chainsmokers, Black Eyed Peas, Liam Gallagher and a Russian rock band Splean. According to the festival’s tradition, the first day is free for all visitors, and the line-up is mostly Ukrainian pop-stars. The headliner of the first day is Ukrainian music legend Sofia Rotaru, who is known for the songs like “Odna Kalyna” and “Chervona Ruta.” Although the festival takes place within Kyiv, there is camping area for those who prefer to stay at the territory.
Atlas Weekend. VDNH (1 Akademika Hlushkova Ave.) July 9-14. 3 p.m. – 11:55 p.m. One-day ticket – Hr 1,250-3,150, three-day ticket – Hr 2,500-6,250, full pass – Hr 3,000-7,500
Odesa International Film Festival
There are plenty of reasons to escape Kyiv’s heat and travel to Odesa for a weekend, and one of them is Odesa International Film Festival. The annual nine-day event celebrates its 10th birthday this year with a full of premieres program. The festival will screen the dark comedy about modern social issues “Parasite” directed by South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, which won the main award, Palme d’Or, at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. One of the top documentary premieres is “Untouchable” depicting the stardom and disgrace of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein accused of sexual abuse by dozens of women. The big Ukrainian hit is “Homeward” by Nariman Aliev, a Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar director. The drama spotlights the tragedy of a Crimean Tatar family, whose family member dies at the war front in Ukraine’s east, and which decides to head homeward, to Russia-annexed Crimea, to bury his body. Apart from all kinds of movies screenings, visitors to the festival will be able to attend meetings and workshops with film gurus, such as French actress Catherine Deneuve.
Odesa International Film Festival. Locations in Odesa are to be announced. July 12-20. Regular pass – Hr 1,800, VIP pass with access to red carpet, opening and closing ceremonies – Hr 25,000. Get passes at www.oiff.com.ua
British Royal Ballet recordings
The recordings of three one-act plays of the British Royal Ballet from leading choreographers will run at Planeta Kino cinema in Kyiv. In “Within the Golden Hour” by Christopher Wheeldon, duets dance to the music of Ezio Bosso, dreamy and meditative, across a glowing stage. “Medusa,” a new work by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, who worked with Beyoncé, retells from a feministic standpoint the Greek myth about Medusa, a woman with snakes for hair and a deadly gaze. Finally, the arresting “Flight Pattern” depicts the flight of refugees to the music of Henryk Górecki’s “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.”
“Triple Bill: Within the Golden Hour, Medusa, Flight Pattern.” Planeta Kino (34 Stepana Bandery Ave.). July 5. 7:30 p.m. Hr 170-230
