Cannes Film Festival to Screen Ukrainian Documentary Militantropos
The world premiere of the Ukrainian documentary Militantropos will take place at the Cannes Film Festival, and the film will be presented in the Directors' Fortnight parallel program.
The Gaze reports on this with reference to Suspilne Kultura.
It is noted that Militantropos is the only Ukrainian feature film in this year's selection.
This film is a joint work of directors Yelyzaveta Smith, Alina Horlova, Semen Mozhovyi and the camera crew of Viacheslav Tsvetkov, Khrystyna Lizohub and Denys Melnyk. It was created by the following production companies: Ukrainian Tabor, Austrian Mischief films, and French Les Valseurs Bordeaux.
The project was created by screenwriter Maksym Nakonechnyi and military man and philosopher Oleksandr Komarov.
The title Militantropos is a neologism that combines two words: Latin milit (warrior) and Greek antropos (man). It is an attempt to describe the human condition in war, which transforms a person to the point of physical and moral survival.
The film is part of the documentary triptych Days I Want to Forget.
The Directors' Fortnight is a parallel program of the Cannes Film Festival, founded in 1969. It presents works of auteur cinema and discovers new names in world cinema.
As The Gaze reported earlier, Ukrainian director Pavlo Ostrikov's sci-fi movie 'U Are the Universe' will represent Ukraine at the prestigious Festival de Cinema Europeu in Niterói, Brazil.