Ukraine’s consul-general is urging a Toronto International Film Festival chief executive to withdraw ‘Russians at War’ from the festival’s schedule
Russians at War, by Russian-Canadian documentary filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova, is set to be shown for the first time in North America at TIFF next week.Ukrainian officials are urging the Toronto International Film Festival to cancel screenings of a documentary that follows Russian soldiers fighting against Ukraine, saying the film is propaganda that whitewashes their war crimes.
Mr. Nikolenko wrote that the Consulate General of Ukraine in Toronto, the Ukrainian embassy in Ottawa, and the non-profit Ukrainian Canadian Congress had been in “intensive communication” with senior management of the festival about the film for weeks. “I want to be clear that this Canada-France co-production is an anti-war film made at great risk to all involved, myself especially,” she said. “I unequivocally believe that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is unjustified, illegal and acknowledge the validity of the International Criminal Court investigation of war crimes in Ukraine.”
Ms. Trofimova told reporters that she saw no signs of war crimes. “I think in Western media, that’s what Russian soldiers are associated with at this point, because there were no other stories. This is another story.”
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