"Friendship is more powerful than war"
Some days ago I had an Skype-Interview with Yelizaveta Smith the director of the Ukrainian film „Shkola Nomer 3“. She couldn‘t be at the Berlinale in person, because she gave birth to her child. So I am very happy that I got the opportunity to talk with her via Skype. Yelizaveta is a very nice person and I was curious to find out more about the background of this great and touching documentary.How did you meet those wonderful children and how did you start the project?When the war in the Ukraine began many people who took part in the revolution didn't know what to do. I felt this kind of panic inside myself – I felt powerless. Then me and my friends were invited to take part in a volunteering program, where we had to go to eastern Ukraine. At that time it was free from the Russian military...