{"id":101999,"date":"2025-10-04T00:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T00:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/101999\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T00:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T00:30:20","slug":"doc-about-deaf-ukrainian-war-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/101999\/","title":{"rendered":"Doc About Deaf Ukrainian War Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olivier Sarbil\u2019s \u201cViktor,\u201d<\/a> opening in Los Angeles October 3, is a war documentary unlike any other. The title subject is a deaf Ukrainian man who wants to enlist in his country\u2019s armed forces in 2022 when Russia launches its full-scale invasion. But as he notes right away in the trailer for \u201cViktor<\/a>,\u201d which IndieWire is proud to exclusively debut below, \u201cThe deaf are set aside. Out of touch with the hearing world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, he becomes a war photographer documenting Ukraine<\/a>\u2018s fight. Sarbil, the director, wanted to tell a story about the deaf community in Ukraine and how it was dealing with the war. The filmmaker was inspired by how he himself had lost hearing in one of his ears while making a previous war documentary in \u201cLibya.\u201d Sarbil, who serves as cinematographer on \u201cViktor\u201d as well, shooting the film in striking black-and-white monochrome, ultimately realized that Viktor should be his subject. It\u2019s a startling war film as character study, and builds off Sarbil\u2019s previous work directing war documentaries<\/a> for \u201cFrontline,\u201d including 2017\u2019s \u201cMosul.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cViktor\u201d premiered in the Platform section of TIFF 2024, and has since played the Hamptons International Film Festival, Deauville, and Camerimage, where it played in the documentary features competition.<\/p>\n

The film has many unique stylistic choices. Deaf people still feel vibrations, of course, so it has a sound design that tries to replicate Viktor\u2019s point of view, including being very vibration-heavy.<\/p>\n

Giving the film a rave \u201cA\u201d review out of TIFF 2024, IndieWire said, \u201cOne of the unexpected gems of this year\u2019s fest, \u2018Viktor\u2019 is a (Darren Aronofsky-produced) doc from the multi-award-winning director\/DP Olivier Sarbil, a globetrotting conflict photojournalist who\u2019s now chosen to set his latest in Ukraine. (Sarbil is also behind the 2019 Frontline doc \u2018On the President\u2019s Orders,\u2019 co-directed with James Jones (\u2018Antidote\u2019), a nail-biting investigative look at the former Philippines strongman Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s deadly \u2018war on drugs\u2019 through both its mostly addict victims and chillingly remorseless perpetrators.) But what makes the\u00a0film<\/a>\u00a0so extraordinary is that the ongoing invasion is not the focus but merely backdrop for a window into a truly unique POV on the Russian assault.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cViktor\u201d opens October 3 at the Cinelounge Hollywood in Los Angeles. Its opening weekend will feature Q&As with Sarbil conducted by filmmakers Ondi Timoner and Amy Berg. <\/p>\n

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