Sarajevo Film Festival adds Ukraine to regional programme
The Sarajevo Film Festival shows its solidarity with the Ukrainian people and filmmakers and condemns the #Russian invasion# of #Ukraine.
Sergei Loznitsa
FIPADOC finalises 2022 programme
FIPADOC has released the remaining titles of nearly 200 for its fourth edition, to be held in Biarritz from January
Cataloguing chronicide In the Soviet Union
CONFLICT: Reconstructing and visualising the historical context of the Babi Yar tragedy, where 33,771 Jews were massacred during Ukraine’s German occupation.
Station to stationary
TRANSFORMATION: Probing the extinction of history in Zürich as a railway station makes way for a deportation center.
Totalitarian regimes
STALIN: Loznitsa’s new film has several levels of gazes that organizes what the audience sees. A timely warning.
The craft of documentary filmmaking
FOCUS: IDFA Programmer Laura van Halsema on «Focus: Re-releasing History».
Day-to-day life amongst a pro-Russian battalion in Ukraine
Their Own Republic by Russian director Aliona Polunina caused quite a fury at this year‘s Doclisboa due to its pro-Russian stance. The documentary nonetheless offers an interesting insight into the side of the Ukrainian conflict rarely portrayed in western media.
Archival disaster tourism
The archival footage from a court action against leading scientists in the Soviet Union of 1930 has been reconfigured into a narrative drama, which leads today‘s audience to believe the opposite of contemporary spectators.
Useful idiots
Sergei Loznitsa’s most recent film contrasts the sombre with the celebratory at the yearly pro-Russia gathering on Victory Day at the Soviet Memorial in Berlin.
Dying city
The city of Leningrad and the blockade during the Second World War. No words. No music. Only sounds and black and white images of a dying city.