I Did Not Want to Make a War Film (2022)
A full-scale invasion found the Kyiv director in a small Bedouin village in the Middle East. It was warm, safe, and unbearably far from home. Once the director had a prophetic dream. She decided to return to Kyiv, still the hostilities were unfolding. Despite the condemnation of relatives and the long journey, she finally managed to cross the threshold of her home. But the house itself has now become forever different.
Director: Nadia Parfan
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Illia Gladshtein as Self |
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Bogdan Kutsii as Self |
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Olga Parfan as Self |
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Oksana Usachova as Self |
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Nataliia Usachova as Self |
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Andrii Zinchenko as Self |
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Kateryna Singurova as Self |
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Anton Singurov as Self |
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Ivan Singurov as Self |
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Oleksandr Surovtsov as Self |
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Yulia Surovtsova as Self |
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Arsenii Surovtsov as Self |
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Kapitolina Pasikova as Self |
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Oleksii Kuzmin as Self |
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Anastasiia Stanko as Self |
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Oksana Semenik as Self |
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Residents of Bucha as |
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Residents of Borodianka as |
| Editing | Taras Spivak | Editor |
| Directing | Nadia Parfan | Director |
| Production | Soo-Jeong Kang | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Nadia Parfan | Writer |
| Crew | Kateryna Mizina | Cinematography |
| Sound | Yevgen Chaban | Sound Recordist |
| Crew | Unian | Cinematography |
| Crew | Dmytro Burko | Cinematography |
| Crew | Volodymyr Demchenko | Cinematography |
| Crew | Petro Pogorilo | Cinematography |
| Crew | Verena Hoelzl | Cinematography |
| Crew | Nadia Parfan | Cinematography |
| Crew | Valera Mironenko | Cinematography |
| Crew | Volodymyr Chepel | Cinematography |
| Crew | KINODOPOMOHA | Cinematography |
| Production | Daniel Lombroso | Producer |
| Crew | Illia Gladshtein | Cinematography |
| Sound | Margaryta Kulichova | Sound Designer |
| Editing | Maryna Tkachenko | Colorist |