Film Talk with Roman Liubyi, Director of IRON BUTTERFLIES

Moderation: Pablo Bücheler


IRON BUTTERFLIES, DE, UA 2023 – Director: Roman Liubyi


Iron Butterflies, butterfly-shaped projectiles disintegrated and
brought down the passenger plane MH17 over eastern Ukraine on 17
July 2014. All 298 people on board were killed. While the mills
of the law took years to convict the perpetrators, a rock-solid
web of lies had been erected around the downing of the plane in
Russia soon after. The film is a meticulous and artful approach
to what remains when truth collides with grotesque falsification.
With archival footage from international and Russian media,
voices of eyewitnesses and perpetrators, the film examines how a
world has been created in Russia in which violence can only be
defended by lies and lies can only be maintained by
violence. 


Biography


Roman Liubyi is a Ukrainian filmmaker and editor working in
cinematography, theatre and music. His documentary debut WAR NOTE
is a surreal cinematic journey to the frontline of the war
between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, edited together from
found footage of Ukrainian soldiers from 2014. Since 2013, Liubyi
has been part of the film collective Babylon'13: Cinema of Civil
Society.