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Last weekend, Miles and John planned on recording a spoiler-filled take on Worst Person in the World. As we release the episode, we would like to offer a statement of solidarity with the Ukrainian people:

"John and I firmly stand for the Ukrainian people facing a senseless war against Putin and his delusional and cruel regime. 

We strongly encourage you visit (for example) the NPR and Fortune Magazine’s list of comprehensive resources to assist in any way you can, as well as to check social media as it seems new and increasingly direct ways to help appear every day. 

We wanted to take a moment to recognize that the Ukrainian culture, people, and art including their filmmaking, are a unique and rich identity from their neighbors and have listed some of note that you can watch at Criterion Channel, Netflix and elsewhere.

Thank you, and if you yourself are in Ukraine, John and I are wishing you and your families, your pets, neighbors and community safety and that you may return home soon. We may be a world away but we are thinking of you and watching.

-Miles F

 Ukrainian Filmmakers

Kira Muratova:

• Filmmaker whose work spans the Soviet and post-Soviet period. 
• Films were heavily criticized and censored by Soviet authorities
• From Sight and Sound: “Her films challenge contemporary life in a profound and uncomfortable way. Muratova always held her finger on the pulse, or rather poked it into the open wounds – such deep-rooted flaws of human nature as evil and cruelty. Muratova’s films possessed an inimitable lightness in a complex narrative fragmentation, seemingly stitched together with dialogues that expose the absurdity of speech.”

Notable work:

• Brief Encounters (1967)
• Long Farewells (1971)
• Three Stories (1997)
• Second Class Citizens (2001)

Alexander Dovzhenko:

• Import Soviet filmmaker alongside Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, and Vsevolod Pudovkin. 
• His film Earth (1930) is a must see!

Alexander Rodnyansky:

• From Kyiv. Director of Leviathan (2014)

Oleg Sentsov:

Rhino (2019)

Second Class Citizens (2001)

Valentyn Vasyanovych:

• The Tribe (2014) – A MUST SEE FILM!
• Atlantis (2019)
• Reflection (2021)

Maryna Er Gorbach:

• Klondike (2022) – released this year

Natalia Vorozhbyt:

• Bad Roads (2020)

Nariman Aliev:

• Homeward (2019)

Iryna Tsilyk:

• The Earth is Blue as an Orange (2020)

Yuri Ilyenko:

• Cinematographer on Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)
• The White Bird Marked with Black (1971)