"Militarist" is a new man of war. Ukrainian film that impresses in Cannes

The world premiere of the Ukrainian documentary Militarist took place in the Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight parallel program.

This is not just another Ukrainian film at an international festival, it is the only feature-length project from Ukraine in this year's selection, a deep and painful conversation with the viewer about what human life becomes in a full-scale war; one of those films that makes it hard to return to everyday life, like after 20 Days in Mariupol by Mstislav Chernov.

However, if Chernov's film was a report from the epicenter of the tragedy, Militarist is a movie about life in its shadow. About an everyday life that no longer belongs to itself.

Filmed in the style of an observational documentary, the film continues the line started by Kateryna Hornostai's Tape of Time and Olha Zhurba's Songs of a Slowly Burning Land.