Tag: Donbass
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‘Donbass’ Review: Sergei Loznitsa’s Bleak and Brutal Ukraine-Set War Comedy is Eerily Timed
Nobody who knows anything about war would claim there are good or bad conflicts. Still, the warfare seen in Sergey Loznitsa’s savage Ukraine-set satire “Donbass” manages to seem even more harrowing than the fictional fighting we are used to seeing on screen. That is not because the film is gruesome in its visuals. Instead, Loznitsa…
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‘Donbass’ Trailer: Ukraine Auteur Sergei Loznitsa’s 2018 Antiwar Film Finally Gets U.S. Release
Ukraine filmmaker and Cannes winner Sergei Loznitsa made headlines recently for writing an open letter condemning the European Film Academy’s initially lax response to the Ukraine war, and promptly dropped out of the organization. Later, the Academy announced it would exclude Russian films from consideration for its 2022 awards. He was later expelled from the…
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Sergei Loznitsa, Director Who Stood With Russian Filmmakers, Expelled From Ukrainian Film Academy
Sergei Loznitsa, the Ukrainian director who resigned from the European Film Academy over its response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has been expelled from the Ukrainian Film Academy for expressing his support for Russian filmmakers. In a statement released on Saturday, March 19, Loznitsa wrote that he had been expelled for being, in the Academy’s…
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Streaming: the best Ukrainian films past and present
The embattled nation’s cinema is rich and distinctive, from 1929’s milestone Man With a Movie Camera to Sergei Loznitsa’s pitch-black comedy DonbassUkraine’s national cinema is a storied and distinctive one, though not one that has traditionally received the exposure it deserves. That’s been shifting of late, with Ukrainian film-makers such as Sergei Loznitsa and Valentyn…
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‘Donbass’ Producer Denis Ivanov Slams Support for Russian Filmmakers: ‘No More Business as Usual With Putin’s Russia’
Denis Ivanov, the Ukrainian producer of critically acclaimed films including Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s “The Tribe,” Sergey Loznitsa’s “Donbass” and Oleh Sentsov’s “Rhino,” has penned an impassioned letter against Russia’s war in Ukraine, describing it as a “genocide against Ukrainians” and accusing the Russian military of war crimes.In the letter, Ivanov gave his full-throated support to a…
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Ukrainian producer Denis Ivanov calls for blanket ban of Russian films in open letter
Ivanov’s credits include Oleg Sentsov’s ‘Rhino’ and Sergio Loznitsa’s ’Donbass’.Ukrainian producer Denis Ivanov, whose credits include Oleg Sentsov’s Rhino and Sergei Loznitsa’s Donbass, has released an open letter calling on professionals working in the film and cultural sectors to wake up to the “genocide of Ukrainians” as Russia invades his country.Ivanov is currently signed up…