At the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on the island of Lido, Ilya Khrzhanovsky received the Silver Lion for Best Director for the film Dau. The top prize, the Golden Lion, went to the film The Unknown Woman by Danish director May el-Toukhy.

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The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially demand that Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s film «DAU» be removed from the Venice Film Festival program. The festival leadership refuses. What is the vulnerability of both sides of the conflict?

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