Notre Guerre

Between February and April 2025, Bernard-Henri Lévy and his co-director Marc Roussel filmed the Pokrovsk and Soumy fronts in eastern Ukraine. They followed the fighters of the Anne de Kyiv Brigade, armed by France. They filmed the daily lives of the inhabitants, bombarded by Russian forces terrorizing civilians on the eve of possible negotiations. They interview President Zelensky, who is reluctant to travel to Washington, and then watch the rebroadcast of the meeting with Ukrainian soldiers in a bunker. For the real heroes of the film are the anonymous fighters and civilians who hold their heads high in the face of adversity and suffering, and who are filmed on a daily basis. The film, the final part of Lévy’s “Ukrainian Quartet”, is a diary, peppered with flashbacks in which the author recalls the high points of this war that began in 2014. (Cannes Film Festival)