What: Butterfly Vision (Bachennya Metelyka) is a Ukrainian film that is going to be screened at BFI Film Festival in London. The film is about Lilia, a 28-year-old aerial reconnaissance expert, who returns home from the war in Donbas but her traumatic experiences re-emerge in an unexpected and dreamlike manner.
When and Where:
- Thursday 13 October 2022 18:00 Curzon Soho Cinema, Screen 1
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Friday 14 October 2022 12:30, BFI Southbank, NFT2
Director: Maksym Nakonechnyi
Producers: Yelizaveta Smith, Darya Bassel
Screenwriter: Maksym Nakonechnyi, Iryna Tsilyk
With Rita Burkovska, Liubomyr Valivots, Myroslava Vytrykhovska-Makar
Ukraine-Czech Republic-Croatia-Sweden 2022. 107min
UK distribution: MUBI
Language: Ukrainian, English with English subtitles
More About the Event
Maksym Nakonechnyi’s striking debut film is both an impressive account of her attempts to reintegrate into a largely uncomprehending society and a formally inventive take on her mental condition. Returning from a war zone, Lilia (code-named Butterfly) finds herself misunderstood both by her newly radicalized husband and a world where the war seems distant. Co-written by Irina Tsilyk, who made the award-winning The Earth Is Blue as an Orange, the film’s many themes ranging from misogyny to abortion all arise naturally from its social observation. A sensitive and nuanced drama with an impressive performance by Rita Burkovska as Lilia, Butterfly Vision combines drone, social media and television footage with Džian Baban’s inventive industrial-inspired music score to create an astonishing sense of disorientation.
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