Iron Butterflies

Roman Liubiy

Documentary, 2023

Synopsis

In summer 2014, sunflower fields and coal mines in eastern Ukraine turn into a 12 square kilometers crime scene. A multi-layered investigation into the downing of flight MH17, in which a butterfly-shaped shrapnel found in the pilot’s body implicated the state responsible for a war crime that remains unpunished.

Festivals

Sundance 2023
– World Cinema Documentary Competition

Berlinale 2023
– Panorama

Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2023
– Film Forward

Hot Docs 2023
– “Made in Ukraine” Program

Int. DOK.fest Munich 2023
– DOK.focus: POWER OF MEDIA?

DocAviv 2023
– International Competition

Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston 2023
– Official selection

Bildrausch Filmfest Basel 2023
– Official selection

Karlovy Vary Int. Film Festival 2023
– Official Selection “Horizons”

Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin 2023
– Official selection

Melbourne International Film Festival 2023
– Official selection

:DOKU FEST Kosovo 2023
– TRUTH DOX

Warsaw Film Festival 2023
– Documentary Competition

Doc Edge Festival 2023
– International Feature competition

International Human Rights Film Festival Albania 2023
– Official selection

Baltic Sea Docs Riga 2023
– Official selection

DMZ Korea 2023
– Official selection

Adelaide Film Festival 2023
– Official selection

this human world – International Human Rights Film Festival 2023
– Official selection

ReFrame Film Festival
– Official selection

DocPoint Helsinki 2024
– Official selection

Crew

Authors –
Roman Liubiy
Mila Zhluktenko

Director –
Roman Liubiy

Producer –
Andrii Kotliar, Volodymyr Tykhyy (Babylon’13)

Co-Producers –
David Armati Lechner, Isabelle Bertolone, Trini Götze (Trimafilm)

TV Broadcaster –
rbb, arte

Funded by –
Ukrainian Cultural Foundation
Ukrainian State Film Agency

DoP –
Andrii Kotliar

Editor –
Roman Liubiy
Mila Zhluktenko

Sound –
Andrii Rohachov

Production Design –
Volodymyr Liubiy

Music –
Anton Baibakov, Oleksandra Morozova

Press contact

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+32 486 54 64 80

Gudrun Burie
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+32 498 10 10 01

World Sales

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info@riseandshine-berlin.de

Details

Production –
Ukraine / Germany 2023

Picture –
1:1,78

Sound –
5.1 SRD

Length –
84 min.