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US actor and director Sean Penn will premiere a documentary he filmed in Kyiv featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at next month’s Berlin film festival, organisers said Monday.
The 73rd-annual Berlinale, as the February 16-26 event is known, will shine a spotlight on the war, which will mark the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during the event.
Penn’s “Superpower”, billed as “the chronicle of a film project that reality forced to change into something less controllable but more meaningful”, will be the most prominent among the Ukraine entries at the festival.
Festival co-director Carlo Chatrian told reporters the film was shot under “very difficult circumstances”.
Penn was in Kyiv to shoot a documentary in late February 2022 when the Russian invasion began.
The two-time Oscar winner was photographed attending a government news conference in Kyiv, and could be seen meeting with Zelensky in a video posted to the Ukrainian president’s Instagram account.
The 62-year-old actor shot the documentary for Vice Studios with directing partner Aaron Kaufman.
“Superpower” will screen in the Berlinale Special section of the festival, out of competition.
