“There will be no film against the Russians!” At Artdocfest, SERB activists disrupted the screening of a film about Donbass

Update. The leader of the SERB movement, Igor Beketov, told Interfax that the police detained him and two other activists for disrupting a show in October.

On December 10, during the screening of a film about the war in Ukraine, unknown supporters of pro-Russian separatists burst into the hall at the Artdocfest festival in Moscow and disrupted the event. The incident took place at the Oktyabr cinema shortly after the start of the showing of the documentary film Flight of the Bullet, directed by Beata Bubenets.

According to eyewitnesses, people who burst into the cinema blocked the screen with shouts of “There will be no film against the Russians!”, spilled an odorous liquid and began to threaten the audience. After some time, the offenders were taken out of the hall by the police to the applause of the visitors of the session.

After the incident, the head of the festival, Vitaly Mansky, announced to the audience that the show would not take place.

• The day before, on December 9, during the premiere screening of the film, a group of activists had already come to the cinema building, which in a harsh form promised “serious problems” to Mansky and director Beata Bubenets.
• Filming of the film "Flight of a Bullet", made in the technique of one frame, took place in the Donbass in August 2014. The tape, in particular, shows how soldiers of the Ukrainian volunteer battalion "Aidar" take a man hostage at a checkpoint. Vitaly Mansky told Meduza about this film.