The Invasion

 Sergei Loznitsa, the bearer of one of the most accomplished contemporary visions in fiction and, fundamentally, in non-fiction and archive work, presented at the Special Sessions of the Cannes Film Festival a new approach to his native Ukraine, which he has once again co-produced with Maria Baker-Choustova. Leaving the chaos and violence of the conflict in the background, Loznitsa's always trenchant camera focuses on groups of anonymous citizens, showing the resilience of the Ukrainian people in their painful daily coexistence with war. The exceptional sound work by regular collaborator Vladimir Golovnitski collects fragments of conversations and testimonies from all over the country, building a common, intimate narrative. Thus, Loznitsa will arrive for the first time at SEMINCI with a film that dialogues with his previous works, Maidan (2014) and Donbass (2018), this time giving a touch of luminosity to his images on the complex European present, which he never ceases to question.