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Bridget Fiske
'Iron Butterflies'
A multi-layered full-length documentary investigating the downing of flight MH17
Winner RIGHTS NOW! Main Prize, Docudays 2023
Official selection, Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Documentary Competition 2023
official selection, Berlin International Film Festival Panorama program 2023
“Dramatic interludes and dance sequences add new layers to the text as the film invites viewers to question images and their construction….’Iron Butterflies’ is a remarkable film, tightly paced and beautifully realized...This film is an incredible achievement, and should be mandated viewing for anyone even beginning to make sense of what’s taking place this very moment in the region.”​
Point Of View Magazine
"Occasionally, the screen goes to black and white, and what seconds ago was simple footage is revealed as reenactment. And not even simply that, but...dance that probes the underlying themes - complicity, terror, loss. It is wordless exposition, simple and powerful..."​
Austin Chronicle
“Filmmaker Roman Liubyi…has worked with a talented team...Choreography is employed to great effect...”​
The New Classical FM
"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."​​
CREDITS
Director...Roman Liubiy
Producers...Andrii Kotliar, Volodymyr Tykhyy (Babylon’13)
Co-Producers...David Armati Lechner, Isabelle Bertolone, Trini Götze (Trimafilm)
​Writers...Roman Liubiy, Mila Zhluktenko
Cinematographer...Andrii Kotliar
Editor...Roman Liubiy, Mila Zhluktenko
Sound...Andrii Rohachov, Andreas Goldbrunner
Production Design...Volodymyr Liubiy
Composers...Anton Baibakov, Oleksandra Morozova
Choreographer...Bridget Fiske
HISTORY
World Premiere...Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Documentary Competition 2023, USA
European Premiere...Berlin International Film Festival Panorama program 2023, (DE)
Awards...DocuDays 'RIGHTS NOW' Main Prize 2023​
Screenings...Thessaloniki Film Festival 2023 (GR), Movies That Matter 2023 (NL), Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2023 (CA), Melbourne International Film Festival (AUS), Doc Edge Film Festival (NZ), KVIFF (CZ), Docaviv (ISRL), Docudays (UA), Warsaw International Film Festival (PL), DOK.Fest 2023 (DE), and many more