Donbass (2018)

Donbass: Directed by Sergey Loznitsa. With Tamara Yatsenko, Irina Zayarmiuk, Grigory Masliuk, Olesya Zhurakivska. In eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda and manipulation begin to surface in this post-truth era.

“So this, …this is what the fighting is all about. For a little while I was tempted to say that it only hurt when I laughed, but the laughter died a quiet death in a surprisingly brief period of time, …as the rest of the body count started piling on top of itself. But the increasingly biting satire remained, throughout. This movie is helpful to keep in mind …every …single …time that some right-of-center political apologist tries to make pretend that u0026#39;nothingu0026#39; happened with regard to Eastern Ukrainia.”