Butterfly vision by Maksym Nakonechnyi

A Sunday in Kyiv: Butterfly vision

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Butterfly vision by Maksym Nakonechnyi

Bande annonce du filme Butterfly vision de Maksym Nakonechnyi

Butterfly vision, by Maksym Nakonechnyi presented as part of the Ukrainian Season in France "Le voyage en Ukraine".

1h47, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Croatia, Sweden, 2022, VOSTFR

Lilia, an aerial reconnaissance specialist, returns to her family in Ukraine after several months spent in prison in the Donbass. The trauma of captivity torments her and resurfaces in the form of visions. Something deep inside her prevents her from forgetting, but she refuses to see herself as a victim and fights to free herself.


A session accompanied by director Maksym Nakonechnyi, lecturer Olga Gille-Beloga and journalist and writer Borja de Miguel. With the participation of Enguerrand Lascols, heritage curator at Mucem.


The session then continues in the forum, providing an opportunity to discuss the film while enjoying a Mediterranean specialty, to the accompaniment of music and board games!
In collaboration with Après M

Biographies

  • Maksym Nakonechnyi

    After working on several TV projects, he and a group of friends founded the independent production company Tabor, which today produces documentaries, fiction films, plays, commercial and social videos, as well as cultural volunteer projects. Maksym has directed several short fiction films and regularly produces documentaries. Among his most acclaimed titles are This Rain Will Never Stop (Best First Film Award at IDFA 2020) and School #3 (Grand Prix in the Generation 14plus section at the 67ᵉ Berlinale). His first feature film as director, Butterfly Vision, was selected for Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022, it also won the Grand Prix at the Saint-Jean-de-Luz festival and actress Rita Burkovska was awarded the Best Actress prize.

    From October1, 2025 to February 15, 2026, he is one of 6 young filmmakers selected to participate in the Cannes Film Festival Residence to prepare his next feature film.

  • Olga Gille-Belova

    Olga Gille-Belova holds a PhD in political science and has been a lecturer in the Slavic Studies Department at Bordeaux Montaigne University since 2004, as well as a researcher at the CEMMC (UR 2958). Her teaching and research focus on the political regimes and societies of Eastern Europe (Belarus, Ukraine) and Russia.

  • Borja de Miguel

    Borja de Miguel is a journalist and essayist. He has published articles in Spanish and international media such as La Vanguardia, El Salto, Diario Vasco, La Voz de Galicia, Clarín and La Marseillaise, among others. He is the author of Antropoceno obsceno. Sobrevivir a la nueva (i)lógica planetaria (Icaria, 2019) and Los soldados que volverán. Desafíos de posguerra (Txalaparta, 2025). He is also production director and member of the selection committee of the Marseille Spanish Film Festival – CineHorizontes.

Butterfly vision, by Maksym Nakonechnyi presented as part of the Ukrainian Season in France "Le voyage en Ukraine".

Butterfly vision by Maksym Nakonechnyi

Bande annonce du filme Butterfly vision de Maksym Nakonechnyi

1h47, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Croatia, Sweden, 2022, VOSTFR

Lilia, an aerial reconnaissance specialist, returns to her family in Ukraine after several months spent in prison in the Donbass. The trauma of captivity torments her and resurfaces in the form of visions. Something deep inside her prevents her from forgetting, but she refuses to see herself as a victim and fights to free herself.


A session accompanied by director Maksym Nakonechnyi, lecturer Olga Gille-Beloga and journalist and writer Borja de Miguel. With the participation of Enguerrand Lascols, heritage curator at Mucem.


The session then continues in the forum, providing an opportunity to discuss the film while enjoying a Mediterranean specialty, to the accompaniment of music and board games!
In collaboration with Après M

Biographies

  • Maksym Nakonechnyi

    After working on several TV projects, he and a group of friends founded the independent production company Tabor, which today produces documentaries, fiction films, plays, commercial and social videos, as well as cultural volunteer projects. Maksym has directed several short fiction films and regularly produces documentaries. Among his most acclaimed titles are This Rain Will Never Stop (Best First Film Award at IDFA 2020) and School #3 (Grand Prix in the Generation 14plus section at the 67ᵉ Berlinale). His first feature film as director, Butterfly Vision, was selected for Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022, it also won the Grand Prix at the Saint-Jean-de-Luz festival and actress Rita Burkovska was awarded the Best Actress prize.

    From October1, 2025 to February 15, 2026, he is one of 6 young filmmakers selected to participate in the Cannes Film Festival Residence to prepare his next feature film.

  • Olga Gille-Belova

    Olga Gille-Belova holds a PhD in political science and has been a lecturer in the Slavic Studies Department at Bordeaux Montaigne University since 2004, as well as a researcher at the CEMMC (UR 2958). Her teaching and research focus on the political regimes and societies of Eastern Europe (Belarus, Ukraine) and Russia.

  • Borja de Miguel

    Borja de Miguel is a journalist and essayist. He has published articles in Spanish and international media such as La Vanguardia, El Salto, Diario Vasco, La Voz de Galicia, Clarín and La Marseillaise, among others. He is the author of Antropoceno obsceno. Sobrevivir a la nueva (i)lógica planetaria (Icaria, 2019) and Los soldados que volverán. Desafíos de posguerra (Txalaparta, 2025). He is also production director and member of the selection committee of the Marseille Spanish Film Festival – CineHorizontes.

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