For most people Nigeria is known as a country with huge oil reserves and permanent economic and political problems. At the same time, few people outside Africa know about the powerful film industry of this country, the scale and pace of which are nothing short of incredible. We have engrossed in this subject and tried to understand what a Nollywood is.

Travelling around the globe lure increasingly every other year and it is so upsetting when all kinds of obstacles arise on the way of undertaking trips. OUTLOOK offers you not to get desperate if you can’t set on a journey. Today we suggest you get inspired with movies in which one city or another “plays” equal part to actors’ ones. We’ll tell you about five films that, alongside having artistic merits, educate as good as habitual tour guides do.

OUTLOOK managed to talk to Israeli film director Doron Paz who presented in Kiev his new work JeruZalem. You are welcome to read our interview about search for inspiration in titles of magazine articles, film industry future trends, and reasons of being not fond of critics.

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Spain to Ukraine Herardo Bugayo Ottone represented in one of the capital cinema theaters the flick ‘Queen of Spain’ directed by Fernando Trueba. Among the guests of event there were Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mexico, temporary charge d’affaires of Cuba, representatives of cinema industry, public, and mass media.

Every year over 4 thousand movies are released. In India alone a couple of locally produced films come out daily. And as far back as some hundred years ago all of this didn’t exist. It was only in 1896 when viewers saw the famous “Train Pulling into a Station” by Lumière brothers for the first time.

What is fine in the genius, is that he looks like everyone, and nobody at the same time... Today marks 95 years since the birth of Federico Fellini. And especially to this date, OUTLOOK has prepared a selection of reviews of other, not lesser known filmmakers, about the works of this outstanding Director!

Mass media is often perceived as a weapon of politicians and moguls. People are accustomed not to trust anyone. Nevertheless, there is one company that in split 100 years of activity raised its authority very high. No doubt, we talk about BBC…

Today, December 2, the world celebrates the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. OUTLOOK prepared a compilation of films raises a question of injustice and exploitation of man by man.

International Animation Day is observed today commemorating the first public performance of Paris native artist and inventor Emile Reynaud’s Theatre Optique on October 28, 1892. On this occasion, OUTLOOK selected stunning animated shorts of recent years, which will cheer you up and make you wonder.

OUTLOOK is proceeding with publishing series of articles "An Hour Before" and specially for you we waded into an unusual apartment at Druzhby Narodov Boulevard, which served as a site for the film "Eight" directed by Alexander Shapiro. We spent 60 minutes with the director till the moment he shouted «ACTION» and closed the entrance door.

In over a century-long history of moviemaking iconic films have emerged and hopefully will keep emerging. Such movies become not just iconic but even fundamental. Today we recall one of such masterpieces - The Godfarther by the great Francis Ford Coppola.

Slightly over a month ago the first musical film for kids in the years of independence premiered in Ukraine, it is called “Trumpeter”, directed by Anatoliy Mateshko.

During a festival in Tokyo on May, 25, 2003 the work of Yuriy Norshtein “Hedgehog in the Fog” was proclaimed #1 animated film of all the time. And while for 140 movie critics who chose the film it is very well clear, it is more often than not a task beyond the capacity of a kid. Watching and comprehending aren’t identical notions. We come to understand many movies with a delay of a couple of years. Likewise, it is worth getting back to animated masterpieces when already prepared.