CANNES, France (Reuters) – Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa plans to make a documentary concerning the warfare in his nation, he stated on Monday on the Cannes Film Festival, the place he confirmed his movie “The Natural History of Destruction.”
“I haven’t but been again in Ukraine for the reason that warfare began however after all I intend to go there, and I intend to make a movie, about these atrocities which are happening in the meanwhile,” the director, who lives in Lithuania, informed Reuters in an interview.
Russia is heading into the fourth month of its invasion of Ukraine, which it calls a “particular operation.” The combating has killed 1000’s, uprooted hundreds of thousands and diminished Ukrainian cities to rubble.
Loznitsa has offered eight instances at Cannes, and his movie “In the Fog,” competed for the competition’s high prize, the Palme d’Or, in 2012.
“The Natural History of Destruction,” which relies on a e book of the identical identify by W.G. Sebald, makes use of archival footage to look at the Allied bombing of Germany in World War Two.
Moral questions across the concentrating on and demoralizing of civilian populations in that marketing campaign haven’t been resolved and are related in Ukraine right now, Loznitsa stated.
“Lessons that needed to be discovered after the Second World War have by no means truly been discovered,” he stated.
On a subject that has created buzz at Cannes, Loznitsa defended his opposition to boycotting Russian filmmakers.
“Culture generally, by definition, opposes warfare — it’s one thing that’s completely in opposition to any warfare,” he stated, echoing exiled Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov who final week additionally spoke in opposition to boycotting Russian tradition.
Serebrennikov has criticised the invasion of Ukraine and his movie “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” is the one Russian entry within the competition.
The Cannes competition banned official Russian delegations. But Ukrainian director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk panned its transfer to embrace a Russian director.
(Reporting by Mindy Burrows; Additional reporting and writing by Mimosa Spencer; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
