Premiere of Lithuania-born R. Kirpičenko’s film Spring at the Cannes Film Festival: preserving memory and the grey face of evil
Yesterday, the world premiere of Spring, the debut feature film by Lithuania-born Ukrainian director Rostislav Kirpičenko, took place in the “Special Screenings” section of the Cannes Film Festival. The Lithuanian-French-Estonian co-production explores the search for humanity amid the devastation of war. The film is set in a Russian-occupied town in southeastern Ukraine. Orthodox priest Andriy […]
Cannes Film Festival Between Politics and the Magic of Cinema: Film Critic Dmitrij Gluščevskij on This Year’s Cannes
The Cannes Film Festival has remained one of the most important platforms in the global film industry for decades. It is where the year’s biggest premieres are born, cinematic trends begin to take shape, and the festival’s competition lineup often becomes a kind of roadmap for the film year ahead. Yet today, Cannes is not […]