Sergei Loznitsa
LFF Review: Babi Yar. Context
Babi Yar is a ravine in Kiev. Its bloody past has afforded it a place in the darkest days of history. Over the course of the 29th and 30th September, 1941, approximately 33,771 Jews were massacred by the occupying German forces. Their bodies dumped and covered with earth in the deep gorge. In the months …
Film Review: The Event (Sobytie)
Modern day Russia has a long and tumultuous political and social history. Starting with Peter the Great, the Tsars ruled for almost two hundred years until the aristocracy was overthrown in the October Revolution. After a civil war, the Soviet Union was formed in 1922. In 1991, as the USSR was on the verge of …
Film Review: Maidan
The situation in Eastern Ukraine has scarcely been out of the news over the last few months. The battle for supremacy between Russia and the West is not a new phenomenon, but it’s becoming an increasingly dangerous one. As a precursor to the current troubles, the Ukrainian parliament decided against signing an association agreement with …