Film Festival. But for many walking the Croisette this year, the brutality and destruction being wrought on the country since Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion remain front and center, with the long-term consequences of the conflict still unknown.
were in the Donbass region in April 2021, the first time when a large number of Russian troops began gathering on the border,” says Ukrainian director Maksim Nakonechnyi of his Un Certain Regard title, the only Ukrainian feature film in Cannes’ official selection this year. “Our DCP [digital cinema print] delivered just a few days before they started bombing Kyiv.
Don’t politicise art.
It helps a little