Vitaly Mansky: There’s something wrong, and I want to understand what it is.
When the filmmaker has an answer to everything, he only presents his certainty. I’m being vague about the film I’m making, I feel that there’s something wrong, and I want to understand what it is. That’s Real Cinema- when the filmmaker is experiencing a certain life process in parallel with the viewer. Interview with Vitali […]
A City in Darkness: My Winter in Wartime Kyiv
I come from Slovakia, a country neighboring Ukraine, and I’ve been visiting Ukraine regularly since 2014. Because of this close bond, the start of the full-scale Russian invasion felt especially personal to me. Toward the end of November 2022, as the first wartime Christmas season approached, I decided to spend nearly a month in Kyiv […]