KIEV, Ukraine — Watching dramas or comedies in the cities where they were shot is a fairly common experience. But it’s not often one views a film about a revolution just blocks from where the uprising ...

"Maidan," a documentary film on the anti-government protests in Ukraine, has premiered at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Acclaimed Belarusian-Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa describes his ...

Because of this, our patience was tested more than it has been with any other picture at this year’s festival (and it’s worth pointing out, we’ve never seen as many walkouts as we did at this ...

Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s third film to appear at Cannes topically covers the recent uprising that started in Kiev's central square and eventually ousted President Viktor Yanukovych. By ...

Veteran filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s “Maidan,” a Cannes and 2014 Karlovy Vary entry, is an unusual front lines doc that takes a different aesthetic approach from “The Square,” which grabbed multiple ...

Church, state, soil: a trinity often muddled, collectively held sacred. Few would confuse our glib phrasings with imminent theocracy and unchecked nationalism. Pantheism aside, you might say that, if ...

At home in L.A.’s Studio City, filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky carefully unfolds a blue-and-white Ukrainian flag. The once-bright hues are darkened with soot, the fabric frayed at the edges. The banner ...

Photos and a video captured during the 2014 Maidan protests in Ukraine have been shared on social media in February 2022 to falsely claim they depict the invasion by Russia. Sign up here. “Ukrainian ...

Sergei Loznitsa's rigorous film is one of the few documentaries about a recent revolution that won't feel dated in five years. Kiev’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti, translating to Independence Square, has been ...

KYIV -- Ten years ago today, the Ukrainian activist movement called Automaidan did not exist. Its head, Kateryna Butko, dreams of the day when it once again is no more -- because that would mean its ...

Sergei Loznitsa's rigorous film is one of the few documentaries about a recent revolution that won't feel dated in five years. Kiev’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti, translating to Independence Square, has been ...