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Emerging Filmmakers Discuss Crossover Between Documentary and Fiction at Cannes Docs

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Lise Pedersen As the boundaries in cinema become increasingly fluid, emerging filmmakers whose films have been selected at the Cannes Film Festival have been discussing their journey from documentary to fiction at the Cannes Market’s Cannes Docs sidebar.Curated by the Documentary Assn.

of Europe, the panel on Sunday brought together Ukrainian director Maksym Nakonechnyi, the director of Un Certain Regard title “Butterfly Vision,” and Erige Sehiri (“Railway Men”), the Tunisian director of “Under the Fig Leaves,” which had its world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar.The titles are fiction debuts for Nakonechnyi and Sehiri, who are both experienced documentary filmmakers.Inspired by the conflict in Ukraine’s Eastern Donbas region that has been ongoing since 2014, “Butterfly Vision” is the story of a young Ukrainian soldier who returns home after being held captive for months and discovers she is pregnant after being raped by her Russian warden.

Nakonechnyi, whose credits include Alina Gorlova’s acclaimed doc “This Rain Will Never Stop” as writer and producer, co-wrote the script together with doc filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk (“The Earth Is Blue as an Orange”). “Butterfly Vision” was produced by Tabor, the company he set up with a group of Ukrainian filmmakers in 2015.“When we started making films we were not certain whether we should make fiction or doc,” he explained. “It was back in 2015 and events in our country started evolving, and we bumped into these stories that needed to be told and shown.

The one principle in both fiction and doc is that both begin with a story that you feel you must tell.”While Nakonechnyi was formally trained at film school, Sehiri’s path to filmmaking was a different one: starting out as.

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