Turn in the Wound

An intensely visceral, aesthetically bold personal response to the war in Ukraine that only the fearlessly iconoclastic director Abel Ferrara could make, this form-breaking documentary blends harrowing battlefield footage; powerful interviews with soldiers, civilians, and president Volodymyr Zelensky; and incantatory spoken-word performance art by punk priestess Patti Smith into a blistering meditation on the senselessness of the man-made hell that is war. Enhanced by its raw, lo-fi video aesthetic, TURN IN THE WOUND seeks not to explain or uncover some kind of “objective” truth but to bear witness to and to confront, head on, horrors from which we must not look away.