Ukrainian
director Sergei Loznitsa has won The Best Director prize in the Cannes Film
Festival's Un Certain Regard competition for his film "Donbass.".
The Best
Director prize on the other hand, went to an auteur with established Cannes
credentials: Ukraine's Sergei Loznitsa, who opened the Un Certain Regard
section with his fevered, surreal war study 'Donbass'," Variety wrote. A
sometime docmaker who continues to experiment radically with form in his
narrative work, Loznitsa has been in Competition at Cannes three times, most
recently with last year's harrowing anti-administration protest "A Gentle
Creature." That he was dropped to the lower-profile Un
Certain Regard
strand with his latest, a study of conflict between Ukrainian nationalists and
Russia's "Donetsk People's Republic", suggests Cannes selectors may
have deemed it more of a niche item than his previous work, the publication
said. Variety's Jay
Weissberg agreed, forecasting that the film would
"struggle to find audiences beyond Loznitsa fans," but was
nonetheless impressed by "[a scream] against a society that's lost its
humanity and can't be bothered to care." Loznitsa, also not present at the
ceremony, sent a statement both thanking the festival and protesting Russia's
imprisonment of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov.
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