2024 - 69th Edition

The Invasion

Sergei Loznitsa
Netherlands, France, United States
 - 2024
Estreno nacional
 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. 
Sergei Loznitsa

He was born in 1964 and grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine. He graduated in Applied Mathematics from the Kyiv Polytechnic before studying Directing at the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. He has been making films since 1996, and by now he has directed 25 award-winning documentaries and 4 fiction films. He made his feature film debut with ‘My Joy’ (2010), premiered in the Official Section of the Cannes Film Festival, where he would return with ‘In the Fog’ (2012, Fipresci Award), ‘Maidan’ (2014), ‘A Gentle Creature’ (2017), ‘Donbass’ (2018, best director in Un Certain Regard), ‘Babi Yar. Context’ (2021, special mention of the Golden Eye Award), ‘The Natural History of Destruction’ (2022) and ‘The Invasion’ (2024). His non-fiction feature films ‘The Event’ (2015), ‘Austerlitz’ (2016), ‘The Trial’ (2018) and ‘State Funeral’ (2019) were presented at the Special Screenings of the Venice Film Festival. In 2013 he founded a film production company, Atoms & Void.

Screenings

O.V. in Ukrainian, Russian with English and Spanish subtitles
Tue. 22, 18:45
Presentation
Q&A
Wed. 23, 17:00
Presentation
Q&A
Sat. 26, 9:30
DIRECTOR
Sergei Loznitsa
SCREENPLAY
Sergei Loznitsa
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Evgeniy Adamenko, Piotr Pawlus
EDITOR
Danielius Kokanauskis, Sergei Loznitsa
SOUND
Vladimir Golovnitski
PRODUCTION
Sergei Loznitsa, Maria Choustova, Fabrice Puchault, Anne Grolleron, Rasha Salti, Kenan Aliyev, Natalia Arshavskaya
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Atoms & Void, ARTE France Cinéma, Current Time TV
RUNNING TIME
145 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2024
VERSION
V.O. en ucraniano, ruso subtitulada en español e inglés
COUNTRY
Netherlands, France, United States
CONTACT

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