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DONBASS
Synopsis
When war is called peace, when propaganda is uttered as truth, when hatred is declared to be love, then life itself begins to resemble death. In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside mass scale robberies perpetrated by gangs.
Synopsis
When war is called peace, when propaganda is uttered as truth, when hatred is declared to be love, then life itself begins to resemble death. In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside mass scale robberies perpetrated by gangs.
Our take
This absurdist view of a country in moral decline is one of the finest works from the prolific Ukranian master Sergei Loznitsa. A hilariously dark social commentary on war in the age of fake news and post-truth, Donbass is an anti-militarist cri de coeur from a zone in permanent conflict.