Sean Penn Ukraine documentary to premiere at Berlin film fest
BERLIN —US actor and director Sean Penn will premiere a documentary he filmed in Kyiv featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at next month’s Berlin film festival, organizers said Monday.
The 73rd-annual Berlinale, as the February 16-26 event is known, will shine a spotlight on the war, which will mark the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during the event.
Penn’s “Superpower”, billed as “the chronicle of a film project that reality forced to change into something less controllable but more meaningful”, will be the most prominent among the Ukraine entries at the festival.
Festival co-director Carlo Chatrian told reporters the film was shot under “v…
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