Maplewood Film Society and Maplewood Division of Arts and Culture present DONBASS.
Friday, May 13 at the Woodland Great Hall
Doors open 6:30PM | Film starts 7PM
Discussion of the film will follow, with Reverend Father Sviatoslav Hot of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Holy Ascension. Father Sviatoslav was involved in protests against Russia in 2014.
This engagement will raise money for Ukrainian war relief.
In the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine, mid-2010s: a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by Russian-separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth, and hatred is declared to be love. Life is suffused with fear and suspicion.
What is real and what is fake news? Called "a darkly satirical omnibus of scathing vignettes" by the Washington Post, Donbass serves as a crucial interpretation of the Russo-Ukrainian war, but the film is not, ultimately, a tale of one region or one conflict. It is about a world lost in post-truth and fake identities. It is about each and every one of us. In Russian, Ukrainian, English (2018).
Winner of the Directing Prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.
DIRECTED BY SERGEI LOZNISTA GERMANY, UKRAINE, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS, ROMANIA | 2018 | UKRAINIAN, RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Tickets are $15 and can be purchased here or at the door.