Donbass
Directed by Sergei Loznitsa
Produced by Arthouse Traffic, Graniet Film
A darkly satirical, formally inventive portrait of life in a war-torn region where propaganda and absurdity have become the texture of daily survival.
In the historic Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, despite the cruel war that has been raging since 2014 between the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and the Ukrainian government, people try to survive in the rotten heart of chaos, where violence disguises itself as peace, propaganda becomes univocal truth and hatred reigns in the name of love.
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