Since President Vladimir Putin launched his military offensive into Ukraine on February 24, Russia has been the target of a seemingly nonstop series of cyberattacks. Although government agencies and people in the country are no stranger to attacks by cybercriminals, the sharp increase in hacking cases since the war broke out is unprecedented. . According […]
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War in Ukraine: Sean Penn says he is ready to take up arms
The realization of his documentary in the country, started in the first days of the Russian invasion, made the actor want to fully engage in the conflict. Since returning from Ukraine in March, where he made his documentary close to the conflict, Sean Penn has been thinking only of returning to the country, this time […]
Part of the crew of the film The Revenge of the Glitter Shrimps, filmed in Ukraine, joined the army
Some actors or technicians who made up the filming crew of this comedy, scheduled for theaters on April 13, have engaged in the battle against the Russians. “Overnight, we saw our actors dressed as soldiers “, said Maxime Govare to the Parisian co-director with Cédric Le Gallo of Revenge of the Glitter Shrimps. Filmed mostly […]
Russian actress Masha Mashkova condemns the words of her father, a supporter of Vladimir Putin
Comedian Vladimir Mashkov, seen in A new Russian Where Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, supports the military operation in Ukraine. He also asked his daughter to return to Russia in order to “fight the Ukrainian Nazis”. For the Mashkovs, the war in Ukraine is a sensitive subject. At a large rally given on March 18 […]
Régis Wargnier launches a festival for Ukraine
The director ofIndochina intends to present films that are little known in France. From the first days of the war in Ukraine, it decided to add a program supplement for its next edition from March 25 to 27, a screening of Is Westwhich he wrote and directed in 1999. Twice a year, Régis Wargnier organizes […]
Pioneers of Ukrainian cinema demand the withdrawal of Russian films from platforms and festivals
Whether they are directors, actors, critics or festival directors, these veterans of the Ukrainian seventh art, now refugees, warn of the threat posed by Russian films, vectors of propaganda. All generations of Ukrainian cinema condemn the war raging in Ukraine. After a call for a total boycott of Russia launched by seven filmmakers, veterans of […]
After Atlantis, his visionary film, director Valentyn Vasyanovych documents the war in Ukraine
Accustomed to feature films on the subject, the Ukrainian filmmaker went to bombarded cities to show the extent of the damage. The news caught up with Valentyn Vasyanovych. In 2019, the Ukrainian director was far from imagining, presenting in Venice Atlantis, his visionary feature film on the devastated Donbass region after a year at the […]
Atlantis, a film about the ravages of the war between Russia and Ukraine made two years ago
Awarded at the Venice Film Festival in 2019, this feature film, which depicts a Ukraine ravaged by war, echoes current events. As Russian troops gain ground and the human toll rises, the scope of the film Atlantis, a title that sounds like a myth, had never seemed so realistic. In 2019, when the Russian invasion […]
Sean Penn in Ukraine: “We walked for miles to the Polish border”
The American actor, who is making a documentary on the war in Ukraine, posted a message on Twitter in which he comments on the difficulties he encounters in moving around the conflict zone. On February 25, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced via his Instagram account that Sean Penn had attended a press conference of his […]
Boycott of Russian films at the European film awards
Strongly condemning the Russian invasion, the European film academy has decided to exclude Russian productions from the next selection. The ceremony is expected to be held in December 2022. “The European Film Academy has joined the massive global sanctions currently in place against Russia and fully supports the Ukrainian Film Academy’s call to boycott Russian […]