• Iron Butterflies

    Iron Butterflies



  • Iron Butterflies

    Iron Butterflies



  • Iron Butterflies

    Iron Butterflies



  • Iron Butterflies

    Iron Butterflies



  • Iron Butterflies

    Iron Butterflies



Iron Butterflies

by Roman Liubyi

Iron Butterflies

Ukraine, Germany | 2023 | 84:00 min

Content Categories

Documentary Hybrid
Synopsis
On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down by Russian forces over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. The reality of this attack, and its possible ramifications for the then-ongoing war in Donbas and the West’s relationship with Russia, was immediately questioned by the Russian government and media. As voluminous evidence — including physical artifacts like the butterfly-shaped shrapnel found in the bodies of the pilots — piled up, the lies denying reality only became more outlandish and incredible.

In a world where violence can only be defended by lies, and lies only maintained by violence, Iron Butterflies presents the truth of what happened to MH17, but also what was at stake by not confronting it. Director Roman Liubyi uses a wealth of visual material and individual testimonies to craft this artful yet evidence-driven examination of a turning point in recent world history. This act of mass murder not only destroyed so many people’s lives and the possible future that they could have built — it contained the seeds of the future we now live in. [SUNDANCE FF 2023]
Festivals/Awards
2023
Sundance Film Festival
73 BERLINALE - Panorama Dokumente
25 TiDF – 25th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival
movies that matter festival, The Netherlands
30 Hot Docs Toronto
38 DOK.fest Munich – DOK.focus Power of Media?
DocAviv
Global Cinema Film Festival Boston
Bildrausch Filmfest Basel
57 KVIFF – Karolovy Vary
22 DOKFEST Prizren, Kosovo
18 DocEdge NZ
BSD Baltic Sea Doc. Riga, Latvia
39 WFF – Warsaw International Film Festival
16 this human world – International Human Rights Film Festival
Cast and Crew
  • Director Roman Liubyi
Original Languages

Ukrainian

Russian

English

Dutch

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Co-Production Company
Trimafilm GmbH
Germany
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