Poland’s Camerimage Festival Responds To Missile Strike On Ukrainian Border: “No Reason To Think That It Can Endanger Our Guests”
16.11.2022 - 15:49
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Poland’s Camerimage film festival was in full swing with a packed-out screening of Top Gun: Maverick and a masterclass hosted by Baz Luhrmann when news broke that a missile had struck within the country, killing two people.
The missile landed outside the rural Polish village of Przewodow, on the Ukrainian border. The circumstances surrounding the incident, which marks the first time the territory of a NATO country has been directly hit during the almost nine-month conflict with Russia, remain unclear. It is not known who fired the missile or precisely where it was fired from, though the Polish Foreign Ministry has described it as “Russian-made.” Russia has intensified missile strikes this week in Ukraine.
Speaking at the G20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia, after convening an emergency meeting of western leaders, Joe Biden said the missile was unlikely to have been fired from Russia due to its trajectory.
Early on Wednesday morning, Polish President Andrzej Duda said the missile was likely the result of an “unfortunate accident” by Ukrainian air defense forces.
The village of Przewodow is a roughly six-and-a-half-hour drive from Torun, the home of cinematography festival Camerimage. When news first filtered through of the attack, there was understandable empathy and unease among some of the festival-goers we spoke to, but the event has largely been business as usual. Last night, a scheduled party hosted by ARRI continued until the early hours, with music and dancing spilling out onto the streets of Torun. The festival is renowned for its robust post-screening partying scene.
There also hasn’t been much change around festival venues as guests continue to file in and out of screenings and seminars. However, Deadline spoke
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