, while Zelenskyy himself will appear via livestream during the opening ceremony on Thursday.
The company is soldiering on. “We are not scared anymore,” says Laskari, who’s developing a diverse slate of narrative features to illustrate that Ukrainian filmmakers “don’t want to talk only about war.” Among the titles SPACE Production is developing are the pan-European road movie “Music Under the Bombs,” as well as the Italy-set, feel-good film “The Flash.”
As members of the global film community arrive in Berlin on the eve of the war’s one-year anniversary, German broadcasters are lining up timely, hard-hitting documentaries to commemorate that grim milestone. “Against All Odds: The Failure of Russia’s Blitzkrieg,” a documentary about the war’s first month that was recently acquired by Beta Film’s documentary label Autentic, will air on N-TV on Feb.