Butterfly Vision

Maksym Nakonechnyi’s striking debut film is both an impressive account of her attempts to reintegrate into a largely uncomprehending society and a formally inventive take on her mental condition. Returning from a war zone, Lilia (code-named Butterfly) finds herself misunderstood both by her newly radicalised husband and a world where the war seems distant. Co-written by Irina Tsilyk, who made the award-winning The Earth Is Blue as an Orange, the film’s many themes ranging from misogyny to abortion all arise naturally from its social observation. A sensitive and nuanced drama with an impressive performance by Rita Burkovska as Lilia, Butterfly Vision combines drone, social media and television footage with Džian Baban’s inventive industrial inspired music score to create an astonishing sense of disorientation.

Screened as part of the Dare strand.

“Burkovska is mesmerizing throughout” Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter.

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