The major prize-winners at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival have yet to be announced, but there is no question about which film is the most important. “Butterfly Vision” doesn’t just have the distinction of being one of the two Ukrainian productions on display (the other being Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s “Pamfir”), it also tells a story about the effects of warfare both on Ukraine’s soldiers and the citizens who have waited for them back home.
It is almost incredible that Maksym Nakonechnyi was able to finish “Butterfly Vision” and to bring it to Cannes, where he made a touching speech about the risk of Ukrainian culture being extinguished.
It is even stranger to see a film which is so horrifically timely.Its heroine is Lilia (Rita Burkovska), a young drone pilot who is nicknamed Butterfly.
In the opening scenes, she is handed over to the Ukrainian authorities, having been held captive for months by pro-Russian separatists in the Donbas region.
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