While still potent, Sergei Loznista’s attempt to place the Babi Yar massacre within a particular context doesn’t stand up with his best work. The first thing you notice when going to Babi Yar is just ...

More than a month after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and started a war that the west has universally condemned, the past has continued to find ways to enter the present. Holocaust ...

On September 29-30,1941, Sonderkommando 4a of the Einsatzgruppe C, assisted by two battalions of the Police Regiment South and Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, and without any resistance from the local ...

Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s latest documentary, “The Natural History of Destruction,” bows May 23 in the Cannes Premiere section of the Cannes Film Festival. The director returns to the ...

The great and prolific Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa has been a mainstay on the international film-festival and art-house circuit for some years, but he is now a man of the moment in somewhat ...

In documentaries and fictional features, including two timely new movies, Sergei Loznitsa takes a hard look at both countries, examining daily life amid war and other historic forces. By Nicolas ...

The first thing you notice when going to Babi Yar is just how close the ravine is from Kiev. So close that if the wind was right in those final days of September 1941, the city residents could almost ...