BFI London Film Festival announces 2026 award winners The 70th BFI London Film Festival runs from October 7 to October 18 Evening Standard · Oct 18
Imperium review – Sergei Loznitsa’s archive collage collates everyday life in cold-war Soviet Union Venice film festival: The Two Prosecutors director cuts together documentary footage shot by a TV crew in the 1970s to try and get across what daily life in the USSR was like The Guardian - UK · Sep 7
Ukrainian film-maker criticises EU after it cuts Venice Biennale funding over Russia controversy Sergei Loznitsa likens removal of €2m grant to ‘a punishment in kindergarten’ on eve of Venice film festival The Guardian - UK · Sep 2
In Venice, it’s not politics as usual as film-makers aim to recapture our attention As social media shrinks and distorts the EU’s crises, the Venice film festival is delivering politically forthright epics from directors such as Sergei Loznitsa and Alex Gibney The Guardian - UK · Aug 12
Murdoch and Musk in the crosshairs at Venice film festival Danny Boyle’s drama about the acquisition of the Sun and a four-hour Elon Musk documentary will premiere alongside new films from Martin McDonagh and Werner Herzog – but only one female director has a movie in competition The Guardian - UK · Jul 23
Doomed lovers, high heels and The Odyssey: films to get excited about in 2026 Margot Robbie busts her corset in Wuthering Heights, the Devil Wears Prada sequel goes fashionably to war, and Christopher Nolan brings us a Greek epic. Plus much more in our pick of the best films coming to UK cinemas this year The Guardian - UK · Jan 1
Falling palm trees and a faltering Palme d’Or director: how Cannes 2025 went – and who will win In a Cannes film festival where the greatest movies were about dictatorships and political cruelty, our chief critic shares his picks for the prix The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2025
Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa decries ‘nightmare’ of Putin-Trump alliance In Cannes to promote his Stalinist drama Two Prosecutors, the film-maker said he feared the US and Russia would soon ‘become equal’ The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2025
Two Prosecutors review – a petrifying portrait of Stalinist insurrection Drawn from a suppressed story by gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, Sergei Loznitsa’s haunting film unravels a terrifying parable of bureaucratic evil The Guardian - UK · May 14, 2025
At Cannes Film Festival, too, Ukraine battles on More than two years into Russia’s invasion, Ukraine’s strong presence at the Cannes Film Festival bears witness to its stubborn defence and the resilience of its film industry. The war’s pervasive impact on civilian life is the subject of “The Invasion”, whose director Sergei Loznitsa spoke to FRANCE 24 in… France 24 · May 17, 2024
On my radar: Slavoj Žižek’s cultural highlights The Slovenian cultural theorist on enjoying books that contradict him, Boots Riley’s hilarious TV series, and his ‘terrifying’ taste in food The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2023
Venice film festival 2022 week two roundup – discomfort and joy A mood of theatricality prevailed at this year’s edition – a bleak but furiously cinematic Marilyn Monroe biopic and a forbiddingly austere French courtroom drama being the most distinctive offerings The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2022
Ukrainian director calls for trials of Soviet-era ‘war crimes’ Speaking in Venice, Sergei Loznitsa said situation in Ukraine shows that ‘history repeats itself when we don’t learn from’ it The Guardian - UK · Sep 4, 2022
War films, protests and Russia boycotts: How Ukraine’s plight shaped Cannes 2022 The devastating physical and psychological toll of war in Ukraine was laid bare on Wednesday in Maksym Nakonechny’s “Butterfly Vision”, the latest work to focus on Ukraine’s plight at the Cannes Film Festival, where talk of war and calls for a boycott of all things Russian have dominated discussions from… France 24 · May 25, 2022
The Independent UK · May 24, 2022 Cannes Film Festival, born out of war, grapples with Ukraine The war in Ukraine took a starring role on the opening night of the 75th Cannes Film Festival and it has rarely been far out of frame since
The Guardian - UK · May 24, 2022 The Natural History of Destruction review – a harrowing account of aerial warfare Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s strikes a moral equivalence between the British and Germans in a second world war documentary that offers no clear conclusion
Reuters · May 23, 2022 Ukrainian filmmaker Loznitsa plans documentary on Russia invasion Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa plans to make a documentary about the war in his country, he said on Monday at the Cannes Film Festival, where he showed his film "The Natural History of Destruction."
The Guardian - UK · May 19, 2022 Russian Cannes contender defends Roman Abramovich as a ‘patron of the arts’ Dissident Russian film-maker Kirill Serebrennikov, whose film Tchaikovsky’s Wife received backing from the oligarch, has called for sanctions to be lifted
Radio France Internationale · May 13, 2022 Final documentary by director killed in Ukraine to screen at Cannes "Mariupolis 2", a documentary about the conflict in the southeastern Donbass region of Ukraine, will be screened at the Cannes Film Festival next week, in a last minute addition to the line-up. It is the second installment of a project by Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius, who was tragically killed in…
Los Angeles Times · Apr 29, 2022 Movie review: ‘Bad Roads,’ Ukraine’s Oscar entry, is a grim dispatch from Russian-occupied Donbas region The four tales told in “Bad Roads,” Natalya Volorzhbit’s bleak and unnerving first feature, add up to a startlingly grim panorama of life during wartime. We are in the battle-scarred Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, sometime after the spring of 2014, when tensions between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists…
Radio France Internationale · Apr 14, 2022 From Elvis to zombies, the 2022 Cannes line-up promises to pack a punch The excitement of the 75th Cannes Film festival was palpable as journalists gathered on the Champs-Elysées in Paris on Thursday for the annual press conference announcing the films both in and out of competition. With a special nod to Ukraine, this year’s selection is an eclectic mix of familiar faces,…
The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2022 Streaming: the best Ukrainian films past and present The embattled nation’s cinema is rich and distinctive, from 1929’s milestone Man With a Movie Camera to Sergei Loznitsa’s pitch-black comedy Donbass
The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2022 European Film Academy denounces Ukraine invasion after Sergei Loznitsa protest The EFA has released a statement criticising Putin’s actions, after the Ukrainian director resigned from the organisation