The Invasion preceded by Paleontology Lesson
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Ten years after capturing the brutal crackdown on protesters by Ukraine’s Russian-backed President Viktor Yanukovych and his subsequent deposal from office in Maidan, Loznitsa returned with another compelling document of his nation’s history in the making, a variegated collection of vignettes of everyday life—funerals, christenings, even the systematic pulping of Russian-language books—as lived during wartime, captured in the two years following the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022. It screens with last year’s Paleontology Lesson, following a group of Kyiv children on a guided tour of their city’s Natural History Museum, into a distant past far from the ominous rumble of the battlefield.
The Invasion preceded by Paleontology Lesson
Metrograph
Ten years after capturing the brutal crackdown on protesters by Ukraine’s Russian-backed President Viktor Yanukovych and his subsequent deposal from office in Maidan, Loznitsa returned with another compelling document of his nation’s history in the making, a variegated collection of vignettes of everyday life—funerals, christenings, even the systematic pulping of Russian-language books—as lived during wartime, captured in the two years following the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022. It screens with last year’s Paleontology Lesson, following a group of Kyiv children on a guided tour of their city’s Natural History Museum, into a distant past far from the ominous rumble of the battlefield.
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