Despite the ongoing bombardment, Ukrainian cinemas are open and almost all the country’s regular film festivals are persevering
on February 24th last year, Alisa Kovalenko was on an overnight train from Kyiv, heading east. She was on her way to film footage of teenagers in a village in Donbas, on the front line of the conflict that had rumbled there since 2014. She soon realised that her mission was impossible.
As Daria Badior, a critic and co-curator of a film festival in Kyiv, puts it, the first response of Ukrainian film-makers to political upheaval was “to make something that reflected their lives”. Beneath these intimate stories, the conflict in Donbas shuddered through Ukrainian films of the past decade. Yet for many film-makers, as for Ms Kovalenko, last year’s all-out Russian onslaught seemed to render their craft almost irrelevant.
After the initial shock, directors turned to documentaries to capture the reality of war. Ms Stepanska is making one that follows several people in the film community who have joined the war effort, observers turned participants. She hopes to avoid clichéd images of conflict and instead “to build a story of daily experiences”: the boredom and solitude of a foxhole; soldiers’ recurring conversations about fear and death. “These ordinary things interest me more than ruins and action.
As for feature films: the obstacles are now ethical rather than creative or practical. Foreign cultural institutions and production firms have set up funds to support Ukrainian film-makers. Directors are already scouting for re-enactments of the atrocities committed by Russian troops in Bucha last year. For many others, though, it is too soon to turn the ghastly facts of the war into fiction. “I think we need more time,” says Ms Kovalenko.
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