TIFF 2018 Review: DONBASS (Germany, Ukraine, France, Netherlands, Romania, 2018) **

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In eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda and manipulation begin to surface in this post-truth era.

DONBASS is a series of highly charged vignettes set in various locations (command post; community centre) in occupied Ukraine directed by Sergei Loznitsa’s (The Trial).   It is an often scathing political commentary following the ugly war that has been raging in Eastern Ukraine for years, wielding both artillery and propaganda as weapons.  

Not all the vignettes make sense and they are loosely connected – a sort of interpretation of events by Loznitza.  They are very well acted and with conviction…

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