Ukrainian producer Denis Ivanov calls for blanket ban of Russian films in open letter

Ivanov’s credits include Oleg Sentsov’s ‘Rhino’ and Sergio Loznitsa’s ’Donbass’.Ukrainian producer Denis Ivanov, whose credits include Oleg Sentsov’s Rhino and Sergei Loznitsa’s Donbass, has released an open letter calling on professionals working in the film and cultural sectors to wake up to the “genocide of Ukrainians” as Russia invades his country.Ivanov is currently signed up as a volunteer for the local territorial army near where he lives outside Kyiv, close to the route through which Russia’s 40-kilometre convoy will pass if it proceeds to the Ukrainian capital.He said that the time

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