Anna Buryachkova to Follow Venice Premiere ‘Forever-Forever’ With Documentary ‘Will We Feel Again,’ ‘The Hunter and the Hunted’ (EXCLUSIVE)
07.09.2023 - 08:15
/ variety.com
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Ukrainian director Anna Buryachkova, awaiting the Venice premiere of her new film “Forever-Forever,” will soon turn to documentary “Will We Feel Again,” she revealed to Variety in Italy. The film will see her reunite with Natalia Libet, producing for 2Brave Productions. “In Ukraine, this is the time when you make documentaries, obviously.
But I couldn’t picture myself at the frontline: there are enough wonderful people doing that. I want to concentrate on our inner lives instead,” she said. “We are not allowing ourselves to feel and it affects everything: our bodies, our relationships.
‘Will we ever feel again?’ This is the question I keep hearing all the time. We are trying to smile, but we are consumed by darkness. We are wondering if we will be able to unlock these emotions again once the war is finally over.” In the doc, she will explore the emotional ramifications of the ongoing conflict.
“It’s about what we are denying ourselves right now. About how our personality changes when we go through catastrophic events. As a nation, it feels like we have been going through them every 10 years, but this? This is not something we have experienced before.” Buryachkova – who is also working on new feature “The Hunter and the Hunted” – will opt for body language instead of “talking heads,” with her characters trying to express their feelings through dance.
“I want to carefully choreograph these scenes and show that sometimes, when they can’t speak, people can turn to dance. It’s not easy to say: ‘I can’t feel anymore.’ We think it’s not the right time for breakups, not the right time to fall in love or explore our sexuality,” she said, mentioning some of her protagonists. “There is
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