DONBASS (2018)
opening film Un Certain Regard
Producer: Heino Deckert
Co-producer: Peter Warnier for WILD AT ART
The action of the film takes place in a region of Eastern Ukraine, occupied by various criminal gangs, which are fighting at once with the Ukrainian regular army, with other gangs and with Russian troops. The context in which the action takes place is a hybrid war, happening alongside an open armed conflict, accompanied by robberies on a mass scale and gradual degradation of the civilian population. There is fear, deception, hatred and violence everywhere. Society is collapsing, and death and deadly silence lie upon the place. The state of war reaches its climax.
“I’m absolutely delighted with the news! I’m happy to be able to share my film with the most knowledgeable, demanding and compassionate audience – the delegates and public of the Festival de Cannes! It’s very important to me to bring the issue of Donbass back to the attention of the artists and politicians. As far as I’m concerned, this is the core problem of our time. It’s not about one region, one country or one political system. It’s about humanity and civilization in general. It’s about each and every one of us today.”– says Sergei Loznitsa.
