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Venice Chief Alberto Barbera Defends Selection of Russian Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s ‘DAU’ After Backlash: It’s ‘Not Pro-Putin Propaganda’

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Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera is fighting back against criticism of the inclusion of Russian filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s "DAU."

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The organizers of the Venice Film Festival left the film "Dau" by Ilya Khrzhanovsky in the main competition. In response to Ukraine's claims, it stated that "never will the participants be excluded on the basis of geographical origin or nationality." Rain wrote about it. What the festival responded to. The organizers falsely claimed that the picture presented in Venice was a Russian State project. According to their data, the film was produced i…

About this, ANSA reports. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine criticized the decision to include a page before the official competition programs of the festival. The authorities said that the Russian aggression against Ukraine was the gift of prestigious cultural life a platform project, which, to the thought of the Ukrainian side, fights with the Russian state and their networks, with a “triple-strong signal”. o filmu.The organizers anno…

·Kyiv, Ukraine
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"The Venetian Film Festival reiterates that it will never exclude participants from its activities on the basis of their geographical origin or nationality", says a press release.

·Russian Federation (the)
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In the viewfinder of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs "DAU" of the dissident Ilya Khrzhanovsky. A work-world realized in twenty years, history of the Soviet physicist Landau.

·Bologna, Italy
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Quotidiano Nazionale broke the news in Bologna, Italy on Wednesday, August 19, 2026.
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