“Ukraine is like Porcelain. Easy to break but impossible to destroy.”

That is a line from the Oscar-nominated documentary Porcelain War, which just won the DGA Award for Documentary Feature for directors Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev, the latter a Ukrainian artist also one of the subjects of the film who stayed behind to use his art, rather than guns, as he says, to put up a powerful resistance to the Ukraine war and Russia’s invasion.

Among others, three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is speaking out for the film and its cause, most recently in a virtual Q&A with the directors.

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Read more at:

https://deadline.com/2025/02/guillermo-del-toro-praises-dga-winner-amp-oscar-nominee-porcelain-war-predicts-dark-times-ahead-1236285140/

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