Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky joined Hollywood actor Sean Penn by video link on Thursday at the opening of the Berlinale, Europe’s first major film festival of the year. | AFP
Penn, who was filming in Kyiv at the start of the Russian onslaught, will this weekend premiere “Superpower,” tracking Zelensky’s transformation from comedian to president to war hero.“Nothing has changed in terms of the will of the Ukrainian people,” Penn said. “That’s for sure. If anything, it’s just gotten stronger.”
“It’s the job of an artist to take a disgusting and ugly thing and sort of transmute it and put it through your body and pump out something more beautiful… in response to the world that’s falling apart around us,” she said. She thanked the festival “for giving us all the opportunity to amplify the message of Ukraine, which is the almost universal desire for peace.”
Nineteen films will vie for the main awards, including British-US co-production “Manodrome” featuring Jesse Eisenberg and Adrien Brody in a thriller about an Uber driver who is lured into a cult while he is expecting his first child.
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