Babi Yar. Context (2021)
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Country:
The Netherlands, Ukraine
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Duration:
121 min
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Genre:
history, experimental
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Director:
Sergei Loznitsa
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Producer:
Sergei Loznitsa, Maria Choustova
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Cast:
absent
About film
One of the leading archival documentary filmmakers of today, Sergei Loznitsa, combined his efforts with the Babi Yar museum to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the history of the Kyiv ravine, in which hundreds of thousands of people massacred by Nazi Germany's forces remain forever buried, including a great number of Jews. Loznitsa approaches the subject from as neutral position as possible, traces a huge amount of never before published materials, and tries — drawing on the example of Babi Yar — to answer a question: what is the structure of any genocide, what are its symptoms and mechanisms? Simply put, he places the horrors of Babi Yar in the global context.
Rewards and nominations
- Cannes Film Festival 2021 — Special Mention; nominee: Golden Eye
- Jerusalem Film Festival 2021 — nominee: Best Experimental Documentary
Director
Sergei Loznitsa is a Ukrainian director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and cinematographer. He studied directing at the Russian State Institute of Cinematography and later worked at the Studio of Documentary Films in St. Petersburg. His films have been frequently screened at European film festivals. Loznitsa won the Directing Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival for his narrative feature Donbass (2018). He won a similar award for Best Direction at the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival for the film My Joy (2010). The director’s works primarily comment on various military and political themes and often cause heated debates in Post-Soviet media.
Along with
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Speaker:
Egor Odintsov, Vadim Perelman
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Speaker:
Ilya Altman
Along with
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Speaker:
Egor Odintsov, Vadim Perelman
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Speaker:
Ilya Altman
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Director
Sergei Loznitsa is a Ukrainian director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and cinematographer. He studied directing at the Russian State Institute of Cinematography and later worked at the Studio of Documentary Films in St. Petersburg. His films have been frequently screened at European film festivals. Loznitsa won the Directing Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival for his narrative feature Donbass (2018). He won a similar award for Best Direction at the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival for the film My Joy (2010). The director’s works primarily comment on various military and political themes and often cause heated debates in Post-Soviet media.
