The New Yorker releases film about war in Ukraine directed by Nadiia Parfan

The New Yorker published the documentary short film "I Did Not Want to Make a War Film" by Ukrainian director Nadia Parfan.

"Nadiia Parfan was abroad when Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. In this personal essay-film, she documents her painful return home", says the description of the tape.

The duration of the short film by Parfan is 17.5 minutes. In it, the director tells that the news of the beginning of a full-scale war that Russia launched against Ukraine in February 2022 caught her in Dahab, where she and her husband go every winter.

"My name is Nadiia. I'm from Ukraine. Back home, winters are dark and cold. I prefer to escape somewhere warm and return in the spring when life wakes up again. This year was different. The winter of 2022 never ended", Parfan says behind the scenes.

In her film, she used parts of videos taken by eyewitnesses of missile strikes on Kyiv, the invasion of the Russian military in Kyiv Oblast, and rallies in cities that the invaders entered. There are also videos that she took on the way home; they were filmed in Bucha liberated from the Russians, and in Kyiv that suffered missile attacks.

Earlier, it became known that It's A Date the short film directed by Nadia Parfan entered the Competition Program of the Berlin Film Festival. The film tells the story of the capital of the country where a full-scale war continues, but life still goes on there. Parfan will compete for victory in the Berlinale Shorts Short Film Competition Program.

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