Ukraine’s unexpected cinematic renaissance shows no signs of abating and has even found ways to attract new international investments despite the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic. We talked to Dmytro Sukhanov, producer of the wildly successful film “My Thoughts Are Silent” and head of the Ukrainian Film Industry Association about the rising stars of the country’s film scene, patriotic films and propaganda, nation-building through the big screen, and why Ukraine’s recent initiative to subsidize sitcoms was a failure.
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Irma Vitovska and Andriy Lidagovskiy star as mother and son in “My Thoughts Are Silent,” a comedy-drama about dreams, family and generation gap. The road movie is set in Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine.
