With « activistropos », the Ukrainian collective Tabor documents « what the experience of war does to humans » – Liberation

Can they smile for the photos? No, the photographers who shoot them at the tail leu leu would prefer that they remain « Very serious ». It gives a funny result, to see the trio of Ukrainian filmmakers with their super serious mines, while an overwhelming photo assistant with a large reflective sign to put movement in their hair. Obviously, Cannes is a land of contrasts, but it is even more true when you arrive from a country shredded by war.

Simon Mozgovyi, Yelizaveta Smith and Alina Gorlova came to present Militantropos, Their fascinating documentary with the appearance of a manifesto selected at the fortnight of filmmakers. They sign the production to three, on behalf of the collective tabor, the production box that they created twelve years ago. The thirties are of this « First generation to have grown in an independent Ukraine », said Yelizaveta Smith, alias Liza. A post-Soviet generation shaped, « As humans and filmmakers », by the Maidan Revolution in 2014.

Militantropos – neologism that means for them « What the experience of war does humans » – is a film without main characters, speechless or truly identified places. Rather a series of moments collected, which say the adaptation of bodies and minds to the new normality that has taken possession of the daily life, a collection that draws up « Portrait glue