Ukrainian 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 documentary Iron Butterflies in its P…
cinematographer and friend Slava Tsvetkov, he navigated checkpoints and blocked roads in a dangerous mission to extract his “girls” from the city.“She is going to school in London and has become bilingual. She loves it but she would jump at the chance to return home any day. It’s harder to convince kids,” he says.
When Liubyi embarked on the new film, one of his aims was to raise the alarm over Russia’s designs on Eastern Ukraine. He admits the invasion left him questioning the point of the film and even his work as a filmmaker. The coming-of-age, semi-autobiographical drama stars Karyna Khymchuk as a 17-year-old growing up in Ukraine in the late 1980s, navigating the collapse of her parents’ marriage and the Soviet Union.
Now living in Poland, Noyabrova, like Liubyi, does not want to focus on the immediate conflict for her next film.“It’s a comedy about refugees. The main character is a playwright, who wants to write an outstanding play about war to stop the war,” she reveals.The SquareShe says the film will be set in a big city in Europe but the exact setting has yet to be decided and will depend on which European co-producing partners come on board the project.
She acknowledges, however, when quizzed on this, that it is not an approach she would take in the present circumstances.
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