Donbass, from director Sergei Loznitsa (A Gentle Creature), winner of the Cannes ‘Un Certain Regard’ Prize for Best Director at the 2018 festival, will be released in cinemas nationwide (UK & Ireland) from 26 April 2019.
In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs.
In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth and hatred is declared to be love.
A journey through the Donbass unfolds as a chain of curious adventures, where the grotesque and drama are as intertwined as life and death. This is not a tale of one region, one country or one political system. It is about a world, lost in post-truth and fake identities. It is about each and every one of us.
Constructed from 13 episodes, Loznitsa’s engrossing drama Donbass provides a unique take on one of the most disturbing and threatening of contemporary conflicts. After watching amateur videos posted on the internet, Loznitsa constructed his own screenplay, referencing the format of TV reports and the frequent construction of fake news. Donbass is enthusiastically acted, sometimes deliberately theatrical and something of a grotesque tour de force. It’s all brilliantly, if harrowingly, imagined with stunning imagery courtesy of expert cinematographer Oleg Mutu.
Donbass will be screening at the following venues:
London; Arthouse Crouch End; 26 April 2019 (7 Days )
London; Curzon Bloomsbury; 26 April 2019 (7 Days)
London; ICA; 26 April 2019 (7 Days)
Dublin; Irish Film Institute; 26 April 2019 (7 Days)
Manchester; Home; 26 April 2019 (7 Days )
Newcastle; Tyneside Cinema; 26 April 2019 (7 Days)
Edinburgh; Filmhouse, 3 May 2019 (4 Days)
Aberdeen; The Belmont, 7 May 2019 (3 Days)
Glasgow; Glasgow Film Theatre, 21 May 2019 (3 Days)
Chichester; New Park Cinema, 22 May 2019 (2 Days)
Canterbury; The Gulbenkian, 2 June 2019 (1 Day)
Colchester; First Site, 3 June 2019 (1 Day)
Oswestry; Kinokulture; 26 June 2019 (1 Day)
Lewes; The Depot (Dates TBC)
Street; Strode Theatre; 8 July 2019 (1 Day)