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Elsa Keslassy
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Fiammetta Venner After making her narrative feature debut with “Sisters in Arms,” a thriller about a battalion of Kurdish female warriors, Caroline Fourest, a prominent French journalist-turned-filmmaker, embarked on her boldest undertaking yet with her next project, “Broken Truth.”
An English-language love story and road movie, “Broken Truth” is set during the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Fourest shot it over seven weeks in Kyiv and across the war-torn country, almost entirely with a Ukrainian cast and crew, in the dead of winter, while missile and drone alerts continued to hit the Kyiv region. There were only a handful of French collaborators on set, including acclaimed cinematographer Thierry Arbogast, whose credits include Luc Besson’s “Léon: The Professional” and “The Fifth Element.”
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