{"id":980428,"date":"2026-05-23T19:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/980428\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T19:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:10:21","slug":"cannes-chief-thierry-fremaux-says-putin-will-not-win-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/980428\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannes Chief Thierry Fr\u00e9maux Says Putin Will Not Win Ukraine War"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Berlin Film Festival has demonstrated reticence about addressing geopolitical matters, but Cannes<\/a> leader Thierry Fr\u00e9maux<\/a> is showing no such hesitation, at least as regards the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis war that Ukraine will not lose and Putin will not win,\u201d Fr\u00e9maux said of the full-scale invasion the Russian president launched against his neighbor in 2022. \u201cAnd in any case, he already loses when there are filmmakers of such quality who make films of such quality [about Ukraine] to say what is the truth about this conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFr\u00e9maux\u2019s remarks came Friday as he kicked off the announcement of the annual L\u2019Oeil d\u2019or Prize, which goes to the top documentary at Cannes. He saluted the president of the jury, Mstyslav Chernov<\/a>, the Ukrainian filmmaker who won the Oscar<\/a> for his 2023 documentary 20 Days in Mariupol. Chernov was shortlisted this past year for his follow up documentary, 2000 Meters to Andriivka<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the announcement of the award \u2013 it went to Rehearsals for a Revolution<\/a>, directed by Pegah Ahangarani \u2013 Deadline talked with Chernov, who said he was gratified to hear Fr\u00e9maux speak on the subject of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tL-R L\u2019\u0152il d\u2019or jury members Victor Castanet, Tabitha Jackson, G\u00e9raldine Pailhas, Lina Soualem and jury president Mstyslav Chernov on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival<\/a> May 19, 2026.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPascal Le Segretain\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m always very happy when someone like Thierry or someone who has a big stage, someone who has a voice in the artistic industry, expresses their support for Ukrainian art and for Ukraine,\u201d Chernov said. \u201cThe Ukraine film industry\u2026 Ukrainian art in general has taken huge responsibility \u2014 I would say sometimes it feels like too big of a responsibility on itself \u2014 to carry both artistic and political values to the world. And that is a hard thing to do because artists are not only speaking for themselves and for the people about whom they\u2019re making their films, they\u2019re also inevitably speaking for the country, and they inevitably make political statements. It is always hard for the artists to carry a wave of a political statements because, let\u2019s say, there is a common mistake to think that art can exist outside of politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\u20182000 Meters to Andriivka\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDogwoof\/Frontline\/AP<\/p>\n

\n\tLast year, Cannes screened 2000 Meters to Andriivka in honor of Ukraine. This year, Vesna, a drama set partially in Ukraine directed by Lithuanian-born filmmaker Rostislav Kirpicenko, premiered out of competition. Minotaur, the film by exiled Russian director Andre\u00ef Zviaguintsev, premiered in Competition. The drama is set in 2022 against the backdrop of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m happy Ukraine is mentioned in Cannes. I\u2019m happy that I can represent Ukraine in Cannes, especially in this documentary jury as president,\u201d Chernov told us. \u201cAnd I\u2019m happy that more and more Ukrainian films are seen around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added, \u201cI keep thinking about the panel discussion that I was invited to last year at the Sheffield DocFest [in the UK] and it was called \u2018Are there too many Ukrainian films?\u2019 I see that question coming again and again, to which I can only say, \u2018No.\u2019 As long as this war goes on, it will be never enough. That being said, I think it is very important and I hope that Ukraine films and Ukraine\u2019s art will go beyond topics of war because I think there\u2019s just so much more to Ukrainian culture, to Ukrainian history to present to the world. And I\u2019m personally planning films that will go deeper and present Ukraine and Ukraine culture and Ukrainian myth and Ukrainian life beyond the stereotype of war.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tChernov elaborated on his upcoming projects.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m working on several films currently and one of them is a documentary\u2026 my dream [is that it] will be about the end of the war and will be the third part of the trilogy about Ukraine that we\u2019ve already seen with 20 Days in Mariupol and 2000 Meters to Andriivka. And I\u2019m working on a fiction film, too, that will be in the news very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Berlin Film Festival has demonstrated reticence about addressing geopolitical matters, but Cannes leader Thierry Fr\u00e9maux is showing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":980429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7654],"tags":[5839,6639,2000,299,272740,272741,657],"class_list":["post-980428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine","tag-cannes","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-mstyslav-chernov","tag-thierry-fru00e9maux","tag-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116625476598164689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}