Donbass

Presented in 2018 at the Cannes Film Festival, it is a portrait of the eastern region of Ukraine, where a hybrid war mixes armed conflict, crimes and riots perpetrated by separatist groups. In Donbas, war is called peace, propaganda is held up as truth, and hatred pretends to be love. A journey through the Donbas is a series of crazy adventures in which the grotesque and the tragic mix is like life and death. It is not a tale about a region, a country or a political system, but about a world lost in post-truth and false identities. It concerns us all. Loznitsa shows situations and episodes in the film that may seem absurd and grotesque, but that indeed happens. Although it is a fiction film, it comprises several episodes, each telling a story inspired by actual events that took place between 2014 and 2015 in the occupied territories. Currently, when Russia attacks Ukraine, the film takes on a massive relevance in which we see, in Loznitsa's words, how “an absurd comedy turns into an absurd tragedy” and in which the protagonists are ordinary citizens.

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