Rembrandt's J'Accuse. Peter Greenaway, the British film director, is in town for the Kyiv International Film Festival and a showing of his film Rembrandt's J'Accuse.  I attend a Saturday morning lecture he gives to a packed theatre of students and creative types.  They listen, rapt, as he declares that cinema is dead and film festivals are a waste of time.  Later he comes to the residence for lunch with Bogdan Stupka, the President of the Festival and one of Ukraine's most famous actors, and Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, a pop star and ex-MP.  Bogdan Stupka then invites me to an event at the Festival that evening where I meet directors and actors from countries including Armenia, Argentina, Serbia, Russia and the UK.  Again I'm reminded how the fabric of societies can be enriched by contacts between them; and how lucky we are in the UK to have a rich fund of people who are going out and making things happen.