Maidan

Director: Sergei Loznitsa

2014 / 134min / DCP

In December 2013, Kyiv’s Independence Square was flooded with peaceful protesters expressing their sense of betrayal at President Viktor Yanukovych’s abrupt decision not to sign the European Union-Ukraine Association Agreement. A few months later, more than a hundred Ukrainian citizens were dead at the hands of police, the widely reviled Yanukovych had fled to exile in Russia’s arms, and Loznitsa, on the ground to capture all of the above, had the raw materials of this stark, formally disciplined witness-bearing work, a testament to the collective power of a people united in common cause. “Easily the most rigorous, vital, and powerful movie of 2014… A perfect Bazinian cinema-machine – reality is captured, crystallized, honored for its organic complexity, and delivered unpoisoned by exposition or emphasis.” —The Village Voice

Distributor: Atoms & Void

Introduction by director Sergei Loznitsa on Saturday, March 21st

Part of Two by Sergei Loznitsa