Russian director's film competes at Cannes Film Festival

ukranews.com (Ukrainian)

Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev's film "The Minotaur" will compete at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. The film, a political allegory and thriller about a businessman's crisis, was filmed in Latvia as a co-production outside of Russia. Zvyagintsev is an émigré director who left Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. Cannes has banned official Russian delegations since 2022, but has not imposed a full ban on Russian émigré filmmakers.


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