In “I Did Not Want to Make a War Film,” the first of a three-part series of documentaries, the filmmaker Nadia Parfan chronicles her return to her native Ukraine just a few weeks into the Russian invasion. Watch here.
After Russia invaded, The New Yorker reached out to Nadia Parfan, beginning a yearlong collaboration documenting the reality of the war in Ukraine.
Before the war, Parfan and her husband, Ilya, lived in Kyiv but would typically escape the city’s dark, cold months by wintering in Dahab, Egypt, a small resort town on the Red Sea. It was there, last February, that they watched troops storm into their country. “You feel like you don’t have any will, any power,” Parfan told me, about being away. “You just feel very helpless.
Parfan’s grandmother had also stayed behind in Ivano-Frankivsk, which was shelled by Russian missile strikes on the very first day of the invasion. She “takes her own safety measures,” Parfan says, by keeping on her a list of every family member, alive or dead, so as to better remind herself of everyone to keep in her prayers. Her home is filled, host to four groups of family friends who’ve fled the front lines in eastern and central Ukraine.
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