Ukrainian Directors Take Stock On First Anniversary Of Russian Invasion & Shift Gaze Away From Frontline
deadline.comUkrainian filmmaker Roman Liubyi is marking the first anniversary on Friday of Russia’s invasion of his country with a screening at the Berlin Film Festival of documentaryIron Butterflies in its Panorama section.
The director was in London working on digital set design for the Belarus Free Theatre’s Dogs Of Europe production at the Barbican when Russia attacked on February 24, 2022. “My wife and daughter had been due to fly out that day to join me but obviously that didn’t happen,” he recalls.
Instead, they fled their flat in Kyiv, which had come under heavy missile attack, for what they thought would be the relative safety of Liubyi’s parents’ home in Irpin.
The commuter town northwest of Kyiv would become a hotspot in the early days of the invasion and the site of Russian atrocities.
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