In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth and hatred is declared to be love. A journey through the Donbass unfolds as a chain of curious adventures, where the grotesque and drama are as intertwined as life and death.
The „absurd, grotesque, comical – even incomprehensible – events are factual and those who experience them find it hard to believe that they are part of their lives,” says director Sergei Loznitsa, winner of the Best Director in the Un Certain Regard Competition at Cannes.
(b. 1964) earned a degree in engineering and mathematics at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, and later studied at the Russian State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow (VGIK). He directed several short and feature-length documentaries before making his first fiction feature „My Joy”, which won the Grand Prix at PÖFF in 2010. His second feature „In the Fog” (2012) won the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes and was screened also at PÖFF. In 2014 was Loznitsa PÖFF’s special guest with his documentary „Maidan” (2014).
- Schastye moe (Minu õnn, PÖFF 2010)
- V tumane (Udus, PÖFF 2012)
- Maidan (doc, PÖFF 2014)
- Sobytie (doc, Sündmus, PÖFF 2015)
- Austerlitz (doc, PÖFF 2016)
- Krotkaya (Vagurake, PÖFF 2017)
- The Trial (doc, Kohus, PÖFF 2018)
- Donbass (2018)
In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth and hatred is declared to be love. A journey through the Donbass unfolds as a chain of curious adventures, where the grotesque and drama are as intertwined as life and death.
The „absurd, grotesque, comical – even incomprehensible – events are factual and those who experience them find it hard to believe that they are part of their lives,” says director Sergei Loznitsa, winner of the Best Director in the Un Certain Regard Competition at Cannes.
(b. 1964) earned a degree in engineering and mathematics at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, and later studied at the Russian State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow (VGIK). He directed several short and feature-length documentaries before making his first fiction feature „My Joy”, which won the Grand Prix at PÖFF in 2010. His second feature „In the Fog” (2012) won the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes and was screened also at PÖFF. In 2014 was Loznitsa PÖFF’s special guest with his documentary „Maidan” (2014).
- Schastye moe (Minu õnn, PÖFF 2010)
- V tumane (Udus, PÖFF 2012)
- Maidan (doc, PÖFF 2014)
- Sobytie (doc, Sündmus, PÖFF 2015)
- Austerlitz (doc, PÖFF 2016)
- Krotkaya (Vagurake, PÖFF 2017)
- The Trial (doc, Kohus, PÖFF 2018)
- Donbass (2018)
