doesn t, on the surface, have anything to do with the war. but its director, who is making his debut feature with this film, believes his movie does demonstrate the resilience of ukrainians. for us, it s important to present our movie and show which kind of a people exist in our country, with the passion, with the power, with, you know, struggle and why we have so much, like, a fighting mentality. these films, shot in ukraine or made by ukrainian film makers, are definitely attracting interest in cannes. people, of course they have interest. some people want to help us and they are buying ukrainian films, because this is actually, like, a very obvious way to help, unfortunately, but the interestjust increased dramatically. the cannes film festival has condemned russia s invasion of ukraine. the official russian film delegation was uninvited. but the fact that the russian film
happening with the war, to people s lives on the ground in ukraine? a church basement seen in the documentary mariupolis 2 shows the desperate lives of citizens who ve lost their homes through the devastations of war. it comes from lithuanian director mantas kvedaravicius, who was killed allegedly by russian solders in april. his fiancee smuggled the film out of ukraine. it was hurriedly assembled. one of the film s co producers, nadia turincev, believes it s bringing audiences something quite different from news footage from ukraine. the narrative is the days that people spent, was the bombing that you hear and you see sometimes, and how they live, so maybe those who can see this film, they re gonna be looking differently at what happens there but also, everyday life, other things. pamfir, anotherfilm from ukraine at cannes a small town drama