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 Panorama section.
The director was in London working on digital set design for the Belarus Free Theatre’s Dogs Of Europe production at the Barbican when Russia attacked on February 24, 2022.
“My wife and daughter had been due to fly out that day to join me but obviously that didn’t happen,” he recalls.
Instead, they fled their flat in Kyiv, which had come under heavy missile attack, for what they thought would be the relative safety of Liubyi’s parents’ home in Irpin.
The commuter town northwest of Kyiv would become a hotspot in the early days of the invasion and the site of Russian atrocities.
Liubyi raced back to Ukraine.
Accompanied by This Rain Will Never Stop cinematographer and friend Slava Tsvetkov,...
The director was in London working on digital set design for the Belarus Free Theatre’s Dogs Of Europe production at the Barbican when Russia attacked on February 24, 2022.
“My wife and daughter had been due to fly out that day to join me but obviously that didn’t happen,” he recalls.
Instead, they fled their flat in Kyiv, which had come under heavy missile attack, for what they thought would be the relative safety of Liubyi’s parents’ home in Irpin.
The commuter town northwest of Kyiv would become a hotspot in the early days of the invasion and the site of Russian atrocities.
Liubyi raced back to Ukraine.
Accompanied by This Rain Will Never Stop cinematographer and friend Slava Tsvetkov,...
- 2/24/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
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