Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to make an appearance at the Berlinale, Variety has learned.
A spokesperson for the Berlin Film Festival, which kicks off on Thursday, confirmed that the Ukrainian leader “will be present at Berlinale in some kind of form,” although “which and when is not confirmed yet.” Zelenskyy is the subject of one of the festival’s most high-profile projects: Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman’s top-secret documentary “Superpower.” The details of the film have remained sparse for over a year, when it was first revealed that Penn had been in Ukraine when the war with Russia broke out.
While the Ukrainian leader has been making a number of virtual appearances at various awards ceremonies in the last year, in recent weeks he’s been venturing outside the country and making trips around Europe.
Last week, in what was his second trip outside Ukraine in the last year (the first was to the U.S. just before Christmas), he met with U.K.
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