The Glasgow Film Festival dropped his film anyway.

Sokolov on Monday learned that the Glasgow Film Festival in Scotland had dropped his latest movie, “No Looking Back.”.

Sokolov’s film — a comedy about a mother and daughter trying to kill each other — had received Russian state funding.

In Britain — where a government minister this week published an opinion essay calling culture “the third front in the Ukrainian war” — a Russian state ballet company from Siberia and an opera troupe had multiple performances canceled.

On Monday, the Glasgow Film Festival also dropped “The Execution,” by Lado Kvataniya, a Russian director whose work has been censored in Russia and who last week posted online about his opposition to both the war and Mr.

Festival organizers and movie executives have been considering protest actions since shortly after Russia’s invasion last week, when the Ukrainian Film Academy launched an online petition calling “for a boycott of Russian cinematography.”.

Sokolov, the Russian director, said he accepted the Glasgow festival’s decision, though he found it “really strange.” Many Russian filmmakers are critical of Russian society and politics, he said; if festivals outside Russia stop showing their work, “it’s like they shut our voice down,” he added.

On Tuesday, the Cannes Film Festival in France said in a statement that it would no longer “welcome official Russian delegations, nor accept the presence of anyone linked to the Russian government.” This would mean Russia’s film agency could no longer have a pavilion at the event in which to host parties and receptions.

A Cannes spokeswoman said in an email that this would not mean a ban on Russian filmmakers.

Although the Ukrainian petition that started the debate was unambiguous, there are still splits in Ukraine’s film industry about whether Russian films should be banned

The respected Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, whose film “Donbass” about Ukraine’s war with Russia in the east of the country played at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, said in an email: “We cannot judge people by their passports.”

Algirdas Ramaska, the director of the Vilnius International Film Festival, said that any film involving Russia-based companies would indirectly raise money for the war in Ukraine through taxation

Ramaska said he desperately wanted to continue supporting Russian filmmakers, but how to do that in this climate “was a really, really tough question.”