(MENAFN- UkrinForm) Ukraine will be represented by three films at the Venice International Film Festival on September 1-11.
"Great news from the Venice International Film Festival. Ukraine is represented there by three films at once. The world premiere of Glare by Valentyn Vasyanovych will take place in the main competition. Rhino by Oleg Sentsov and Censor by Peter Kerekes are in the Horizons section,” Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko posted on Telegram.
He noted that the films had been made with the support of the Ukrainian State Film Agency and the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy.
According to the Agency’s press service, Glare by Vasyanovych is included in the main competition program and competes for the main award of the festival — Golden Lion. The film tells about a volunteer doctor who, after returning from captivity, tries to adapt to a peaceful life. He communicates with his ex-wife and a 12-year-old daughter who is also traumatized by the death of a loved one in the war.
The press service reminded that the work on Rhino began in 2012 but was suspended due to the illegal arrest of Oleg Sentsov by Russian special services in 2014 and his subsequent imprisonment. The filmmaking was resumed after the director was released in 2019.
The filming of Rhino took place in Kryvyi Rih, Lviv, and Kyiv and ended in December 2020. The leading roles were performed by Serhiy Filimonov, Yevhen Chernikov, Yevhen Hryhoryev, and Alina Zevakova. The film is based on the real events of the 1990s in Ukraine. The protagonist, nicknamed Rhino, enters the criminal world and embarks on a bloody path. Rhino was created in a co-production of Ukraine, Poland, and Germany.
Peter Kerekes's film Censor, co-produced by Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine was also included in the Horizons section. The picture tells the story of a young woman Lesya, who was sentenced to imprisonment in one of the penitentiaries in Odesa. She has just given birth to her first child and has entered a world inhabited only by women: prisoners, nurses, and caretakers, women of all ages, wives and widows, daughters, sisters, pregnant women and women with children. If not for the color of the uniform, sometimes it would be difficult to say who is who.
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