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Russian Director’s ‘Deaf Lovers’ Pulled From Tallinn Festival’s Ukrainian Section After Backlash
'Deaf Lovers' is directed by Russian director Boris Guts, an outspoken critic of Putin's government and the war in Ukraine.
In a release, Lokk said the Estonia-Serbia co-production, which will still world premiere in Tallinn’s official competition, has received negative reactions from both Ukrainians and Russians, even though nobody objecting to its inclusion has seen the film yet. “Deaf Lovers” tells the modern-day story of a woman from Ukraine and a man from Russia who meet in Istanbul and kick off a penniless vacation romance. Since 2022, Tallinn has refused to screen Russian and Belarusian state-funded films and, in that same year, brought a group of five Ukrainian projects that had been put on hold by the invasion to the Cannes festival.
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