In this interview, Mstyslav Chernov discusses how he transformed war reporting into immersive cinema in 2000 Meters to Andriivka
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In this interview, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk talks about how the war refocused his portrait of a Ukrainian pacifist community in Silent Flood
In this interview, Vitaly Mansky talks about how Bruegel paintings influenced his three-hour epic about life in Lviv, Time to the Target
Documentary is thrilled to debut the trailer of Divia, the latest film by Ukrainian filmmaker Dmytro Hreshko (Snow Leopard of the Carpathians, King Lear: How We Looked for Love During the War), set to celebrate its world premiere in the Crystal Globe Competition of this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Sunday, July 6.
In Imago, the Chechnya-born filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev journeys to a Chechen enclave in Georgia named Pankissi, where his mother has secured a plot of land for him to settle down. He spends time with his mother, with whom he’s close, and a hearty cousin and a friend, but he has barely seen his father since his parents divorced when he was nine months old. That’s on top of a childhood marked by his and his mother’s stays in Kazakhstan, Chechnya, and—when the Russians attacked Grozny in 1996—St. Petersburg, where she changed his Chechen name for his protection. After Imago won L’Œil d’Or, the best documentary prize of Cannes, Documentary interviewed Pitsaev about starring in a film about his life journey and the balance between pre-planning and responding in the moment.
Alina Gorlova, Yelizaveta Smith, and Simon Mozgovyi’s riveting Militantropos , its title a mashup of “milit" (soldier in Latin) and “antropos” (human
In Ukrainian, the film is called Myrni lyudy, which literally translates as Peaceful People. It is a clever, polysemic title that simultaneously addresses Ukrainian civilians embedded in their native wounded landscapes and Russian civilians calling their loved ones who are taking part in the invasion of Ukraine. Those people on the other end of the phone are fascinated by the soldiers’ detailed stories of war crimes and trophy theft and get very upset when their interlocutors become disillusioned with Russian propaganda. First screened at Berlinale, Intercepted has travelled to numerous festivals and political venues over the past year, including at IDFA in the Best of Fests section. Documentary spoke to Oksana Karpovych before the festival.
As a great-grandchild of Armenian genocide survivors uprooted from their indigenous lands, director Sareen Hairabedian carries a deeply personal
It’s been a while since the acclaimed director-screenwriter-video artist Julia Loktev ( The Loneliest Planet , Day Night Day Night ) last traversed
Phantoms of the Sierra Madre Norwegian director Håvard Bustnes made his name with confrontational documentaries in which he explores the motivations