English Cinema in Kyiv

So you love to watch cinema and the latest new releases, but can't understand the local language or perhaps you are still learning and would like to watch an English film with Ukrainian subtitles to pick up some of the language? One option is to have a look through all the different cinemas' web sites (Planet Kino, Oscar, Butterfly, etc) and look for one of the films which is suffixed with Оригінальна мова (Original Language). You'll often find maybe one or two film showings per week per cinema if you are lucky.

But why waste your time with all of that when there are now 2 regularly updated resources for finding English films in Kyiv:

EnglishCinemaKyiv.com

Klaus Jensen was fed up with manually searching for listings every month, so he built an automated site instead. It fetches English films from each of the individual cinemas' sites and publishes them in an easy to use format. You can also sign up to receive a weekly newsletter with the latest listings.

Web Site: https://englishcinemakyiv.com/

English Language Movies in Kyiv Facebook Group

Every Thursday, ALMA language school posts a seasonally themed graphic showing a table of all English films in the city organised by day and cinema for the upcoming week. In the list you'll find a mix of recent films and some more classic cinema often from film festivals that are happening in the city. There's usually discussion around films too and people come together to try and persuade cinemas to show more English films and share film showings which were missed from the weekly table.

Facebook Group: English Language Movies in Kyiv

Prices

Prices for cinema in Kyiv are still reasonable, though they've gone up a lot. A standard seat at Multiplex runs from 115 UAH for a quiet showing to 350 UAH for a popular evening one, and Planet Kino starts nearer 250 UAH. You can upgrade to VIP seating with large leather seats with movable footrests and sometimes even at seat food/bar service (Relux in Planet Kino for example), which is where the top of the range comes in, at up to nearly 900 UAH. The screen at Ocean Plaza is worth checking too, and it was the first in the city to show a film in 7D.

If none of the listings suit, the opera sings in Russian, French and Italian anyway, so the language barrier stops mattering.

By law every film shown in cinemas in Ukraine should either be dubbed in Ukrainian or have Ukrainian subtitles since that is the official language of the country. You can also see this to an extent on Ukrainian TV where Russian speakers often have subtitles in Ukrainian.