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The documentary “When spring came to Bucha”, by Mila Teshaieva and Marcus Lenz, about the war in Ukraine, will open the Kino – German Expression Film Festival, in February, in Lisbon, the organization revealed on Monday.
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The film “is a tribute by the Ukrainian director Mila Teshaieva and the German director Marcus Lenz to the victims of the small town of Bucha who, in April 2022, became a symbol of Russian war crimes”, says the organization, in a statement.
The documentary, which gives voice to the stories of the inhabitants of Bucha, will open the twentieth edition of the Kino exhibition, scheduled from February 2 to 18, at Cine São Jorge and at the Portuguese Cinematheque.
Following the military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Russian military forces shelled several locations near kyivincluding Bucha, where hundreds of civilian bodies were found.
In the place were the directors Mila Teshaieva and Marcus Lenz. Without showing the atrocities, the two filmmakers wanted to follow and film the survivors of the bombings.”come out of their shelters” and the ruins, reads the official website of the Amsterdam Documentary Festival, where the film was screened this month.
In the 2023 edition, the KINO exhibition will also show, at the Portuguese Cinematheque, eight documentaries “that look at different movements” of German cinema, “from the first projection of moving images by the Skladanowski brothers to the latest editions of the Berlinale”. . .
From the program announced that day, the organization indicates that 15 films will be screened at Cinema São Jorge and that, after Lisbon, KINO will travel to Coimbra, Porto and Lagos.
The German Expression Film Festival is an initiative of the Goethe Institute.
Source: Observadora
