The French Film About Russia's War in Ukraine Was Shown at the UN Headquarters
The film 'Glory to the Heroes,' about Russia's genocidal war in Ukraine by French journalist and philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, was screened at the United Nations headquarters in New York for representatives of 193 countries.
The journalist wrote about this in his X.
The film, which lasts over an hour and a half, tells the audience about Levy's journey to the front-line cities and the hottest spots on the Ukrainian front in June 2023. In particular, the French artist visited Toretsk, Kramatorsk, Pokrovsk, villages around Bakhmut, as well as Kherson and Mykolaiv.
The film consists of a series of documentary reports. The author communicates with Ukrainian military, volunteers, and civilians; observes people in towns submerged after the explosion of the Kakhovka dam by Russian military; explores former torture chambers where occupiers held Ukrainian hostages; documents the ruined buildings of front-line cities.
The European premiere of the film 'Glory to the Heroes' took place in Paris, and soon the film is expected to appear on the big screens in the USA.
Recall that last month it became known that the documentary film by Mstyslav Chernov '20 Days in Mariupol' won the audience sympathy award at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam.
The film tells the story of a Ukrainian journalist and photographer who found himself in the blockaded Ukrainian city of Mariupol by Russian forces.
The film captures numerous pieces of evidence of Russian war crimes, including indiscriminate bombings of civilian objects, the death of civilians - children and adults, and the desperate work of medics who continue to save lives in the besieged city.
According to officially confirmed data, 20 thousand civilians died in Mariupol. This figure is not considered final, as after the complete blockade of the city by Russians, the possibility of documenting people's deaths was absent.
At the same time, in a city of over 500 thousand people, 90% of multi-story residential buildings and about 60% of private houses were destroyed or damaged.
Earlier, The Gaze reported that Ukrainian films 'Diagnosis: Dissent' and 'Photophobia' received awards at the 39th Warsaw International Film Festival, considered the largest film forum in Eastern Europe.