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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Andrew Pulver

Leading Ukrainian film-makers call for boycott of Russian cultural ‘propaganda’

Valentyn Vasyanovych at the Venice film festival last year.
Valentyn Vasyanovych at the Venice film festival last year. Photograph: Ukrinform/Rex/Shutterstock

A group of prominent Ukrainian film-makers are demanding a cultural boycott of Russia, saying that it would be “an attempt to cleanse the world of the propaganda of a terrorist state”.

Seven film-makers, including Roman Bondarchuk (Volcano), Nariman Aliev (Homeward), Alina Gorlova (This Rain Will Never Stop) and Valentyn Vasyanovych (Atlantis), have each released statements outlining their support of a boycott as well as their criticism of Russian film-makers who are failing to oppose the attack on Ukraine.

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