Given unfettered access to government officials, director Karim Amir and producers Mike Lerner and Odessa Rae were able to chronicle the country’s 'modern-day war playbook' following Russia’s invasion.
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“Rustem is a Crimean Tatar who’s Muslim, and I just felt like here’s a Jewish president sending a Muslim guy to meet the Pope, this is crazy, I gotta go with you. So I just booked a ticket to Rome and hoped I would get any kind of ability to film with him,” he says. “Of course, it didn’t work. But it kind of showed them we were serious and interested. I think when you find people in the midst of history and they offer you a seat in their caravan, it’s tempting not to take it.
“I knew we didn’t want to do the frontline story, that’s not our place. And we weren’t going to make the pure humanist film about the people of Ukraine,” says Amer.
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