BBC: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve never heard an audience so silent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the credits rolled on a screening of 2000 metres to Andriivka<\/em>, no-one in the Kyiv cinema moved. Their popcorn and beer were mostly untouched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The documentary by Mstyslav Chernov is a frontline film so intense you feel like you’re trapped in the terrifying trenches alongside the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Watching that in Ukraine, a country under fire, the intensity is multiplied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, as society mobilised to defend itself, Ukraine had little capacity for culture. Venues were closed or repurposed, some were attacked, and artists became refugees or soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Almost four years on, the arts are back – but everything is now permeated by the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC: I’ve never heard an audience so silent. When the credits rolled on a screening of 2000 metres to Andriivka, no-one in the Kyiv cinema moved. Their popcorn and beer were mostly untouched. The documentary by Mstyslav Chernov is a frontline film so intense you feel like you’re trapped in the terrifying trenches alongside the soldiers. Watching that in Ukraine, a country under fire, the intensity is multiplied. At the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, as society mobilised to defend itself, Ukraine had little capacity for culture. Venues were closed or repurposed, some were attacked, and artists became refugees… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51800,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51798\/revisions\/51800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}