Berlin Germany.- The American actor and director Sean Penn will present a documentary filmed in kyiv with the participation of President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Berlin Film Festival.
This Monday it was announced that the 73rd edition of the festival, better known as the Berlinale, will take place from February 16 to 26 and will focus its attention on the war in Ukraine.
Superpower, Sean Penn’s documentary, will be one of the most prominent proposals on Ukraine. It is “the chronicle of a film project that reality forced to transform into something less controllable, but more significant,” highlighted the organization of the Berlinale. The project was co-directed by Aaron Kaufman and was recorded for Vice Studios.
The co-director of the festival, Carlo Chatrian, stressed that the film was recorded in “very difficult circumstances”.
The two-time Oscar winner was in kyiv to film a documentary at the end of February 2022 when the Russian invasion began.
The 62-year-old American was photographed attending a government press conference in kyiv and seen in a meeting with Zelensky in a video posted on the Ukrainian president’s Instagram account.
The documentary Superpower will premiere in the special section of the festival, which does not participate in the competition.
According to Chatrian, the festival will present several documentaries and feature films made by Ukrainian directors, as well as works by dissident Iranian filmmakers, in a show of “solidarity.”
The Berlinale will open with She Came to Me, a romantic comedy starring Peter Dinklage and Oscar winners Marisa Tomei and Anne Hathaway.
