Donbass Screening and Discussion

1404 Main Street,Cincinnati OH 45202

20 April, 2022

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Donbass (Screening+Discussion) Sergey Loznitsa (2018, 122 Minutes, Ukraine) Followed by a discussion w/ historian Willard Sunderland (UC) Donbass (Screening + Discussion) Directed by Sergey Loznitsa (2018, 122 Minutes, Ukraine) In Russian, Ukrainian, and English / Not Rated At the Woodward Theater, 1404 Main Street / Free admission The Niehoff Center at UC is pleased to bring Loznitsa’s insightful and provocative film to Cincinnati. The film was released in 2018 but has not previously had a theatrical release in North America. In the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine, mid-2010s: a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by Russian-separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth, and hatred is declared to be love. Life is suffused with fear and suspicion. What is real and what is fake news? Called "a darkly satirical omnibus of scathing vignettes" by the Washington Post, DONBASS serves as a crucial interpretation of the Russo-Ukrainian war, but the film is not, ultimately, a tale of one region or one conflict. It is about a world lost in post-truth and fake identities. It is about each and every one of us. "There is no other antiwar film quite like DONBASS" (Los Angeles Times). Followed by remarks by and a discussion with Willard Sunderland, Henry R. Winkler Professor of Modern History in the Department of History of the University of Cincinnati. Professor Sunderland is a historian of Russia and the Soviet Union and specializes in the imperial history of Russia. Sponsored by the Niehoff Center for Film & Media Studies, the Cindependent Film Festival, and the Woodward Theater. Questions? Contact [email protected]