A petition calling for the dubbing of films in Ukrainian has gained the necessary 25 000 signatures.
The author asks the president to review draft law No. 9432 "On the use of the English language in Ukraine." This is a provision that stipulates that from 2025, 50% of English-language films in Ukrainian cinemas must be shown in the original with Ukrainian subtitles; from 2026 — 75%, and from 2027 — 100%.
The request was initiated by actor and dubbing director Pavlo Skorokhodko, who is the official voice of Harry Potter and SpongeBob SquarePants and has worked on dozens of other films.
He proposes not to destroy cinema dubbing, but to increase the number of sessions in the original language with Ukrainian subtitles, in order to leave the potential viewer the right to choose in which language to watch movies.
- In early July, the Union of Cinemas of Ukraine addressed a letter to President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as the Minister of Culture and the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian Parliament). In it, they call on the authorities not to adopt draft law No. 9432 in its current form and to revise it. In particular, to implement alternative incentives for cinemas, to expand the showing of films in English with Ukrainian subtitles.