The film had its world premiere in the Berlinale Special section of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival on 16 February 2024,[3] where it was nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Award.[4]
This film explores how art, music and poetry express the feelings of people who are caught in war. It examines how they cope with the endless pain and violence that remind them of their history, and how they pursue their dreams of liberation from tyranny and war. The film features Patti Smith's voice, reading poems by Antonin Artaud, René Daumal and Arthur Rimbaud, along with the testimonies of fighters and civilians in Ukraine's war zones and the words of its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Siddhant Adlakha writing in Variety said, "That Ferrara doesn’t shy away from capturing pitfalls suggests a larger and more overarching view of conflict — political and military; ethical and aesthetic — which Turn in the Wound attempts to fold into its purview." Adlakha continued, "It doesn’t always succeed, given the breadth of the topics at hand, but it does occasionally distill them into moments that prove either gut-churning or powerfully introspective."[7]
Leslie Felperin reviewing the film for The Hollywood Reporter termed it as "A watchably odd entry in the Ukraine doc subgenre;" and opined, "I’m not sure what [Smith] and Ferrara have contributed with this film to the Ukrainian cause, but it’s watchable at least."[8]
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