EXCLUSIVE: Influential Ukrainian film producer Denis Ivanov, whose credits include Sergey Loznitsa’s Donbass and Oleg Sentsov’s Rhino, says the lack of support from major film festivals for a boyco…
, says the lack of support from major film festivals for a boycott of Russian culture is tantamount to complicity in Vladimir Putin’s war.
I’m now in Kyiv, working and volunteering. It’s hard to say anything about safety – I think most of the people who stay in the city understand that it’s a lottery, your house could be bombed any time. My sister’s flat in Kyiv was destroyed last week by a missile strike. However, this is my city, the city I love, and, as many other citizens, I will resist, in all possible ways.
The producers of the ‘opposition’ Russian films have also produced many patriotic movies and chauvinistic TV series for the internal market. They organized parties called names like “Crimea is ours” during the occupation of the Ukrainian peninsula. According to recent polls, 70% of Russians are supporting the war in Ukraine.
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