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Ukraine Industry Strikes Defiant Note in Berlin Two Years After Russian Invasion: ‘War Is Our Reality. It Is Not Our Identity’
As the war in Ukraine approaches its second anniversary, industry professionals are rallying support at home and abroad to keep the cameras rolling.
Meanwhile, one year after Sean Penn used Berlin as a launching pad for his Volodymyr Zelenskyy doc “Superpower,” another U.S. filmmaker, Abel Ferrara, will be unveiling his own Ukraine war documentary, “Turn in the Wound,” as part of the Berlinale Special lineup, in which the director attempts to answer urgent questions at the heart of the current conflict. Bondarchuk, whose Forum premiere “The Editorial Office” is set in Kherson on the eve of the Russian invasion, likewise added a coda to his movie — which was shot before the conflict began — that imagines the day when Ukrainian forces have emerged victorious. The war’s impact nevertheless loomed large over the production: Editor Viktor Onysko and actor Vasyl Kukharskyi were both killed in action fighting Russian forces, while leading man Dmytro Bahnenko was recently called to the frontlines.
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