Marta Balaga Ukrainian industry players gathered in Cannes are determined to show they can provide a variety of new content, as well as stories that look beyond the current Russian invasion.“I have been repeating this since 2014 — it’s a trap to be only associated with war,” says producer Julia Sinkevych, now behind Marysia Nikitiuk’s upcoming feature “Lucky Girl.”Presented at the Cannes Market as part of the Ukrainian Features Preview, it shows a successful TV star who has everything, until she is diagnosed with cancer.As noted by Ukrainian Institute’s Natalie Movshovych, several projects focus on the 1990s, including “When We Were 15” — awarded at Meeting Point Vilnius in April — “Do You Love Me?” by Tonia Noyabriova, Philip Sotnychenko’s “Lapalissade” and “Rock.
Paper. Grenade” by Iryna Tsilyk, also behind festival favorite “The Earth Is Blue as an Orange.” “We have to show as much range as we can now.
In Ukraine, you could never have something like the Romanian New Wave — everyone’s style is completely different. That’s what we can offer our collaborators,” adds Movshovych.Some, including Oleg Sentsov, don’t want to talk about the invasion, says his longtime producer, Denis Ivanov, calling his latest project “Kai” a “mixture of ‘Marriage Story’ by Noah Baumbach and a disaster film.” Sentsov was arrested and sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment by a Russian court.
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