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‘A war of who gets to write history’: the artists resisting in Ukraine
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Film-maker David Gutnik lasers in on the artists pushing back against Russian aggression for an inspiring yet harrowing new documentary
Kyiv was supposed to fall in three days. That’s what talking heads and pundits in media were saying, rather dismissively, before the February 2022 Russian invasion on Ukraine. They suggested the fight would be swift and decisive but instead the Ukrainian resistance persisted. Never mind, three days. The war is now pushing towards three years.
“What is this nation?” asks David Gutnik, a Brooklyn-born film-maker of Ukrainian descent. “What is this people? What is this identity?”
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