I Found Community, Warmth And Courage At A Ukrainian Film Festival

I Found Community, Warmth And Courage At A Ukrainian Film Festival

I was invited to be a member of the international film jury at the fifth Mykolaichuk Open Film Festival in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. It’s a relatively young festival, but significantly it begun the same year Putin’s forces engaged in a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. I felt a strong sense of needing to be out there, to further my understanding of what was going on and lend any kind of support I could – so I accepted their jury invitat…