Ukrainian filmmaker Loznitsa plans documentary on Russia invasion


  • World
  • Tuesday, 24 May 2022

The 75th Cannes Film Festival - Photocall for the documentary film "The Natural History of Destruction" presented as part of Special Screenings - Cannes, France, May 23, 2022. Director Sergey Loznitsa poses. REUTERS/Piroschka Van De Wouw

CANNES, France (Reuters) - Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa plans to make a documentary about the war in his country, he said on Monday at the Cannes Film Festival, where he showed his film "The Natural History of Destruction."

"I haven’t yet been back in Ukraine since the war started but of course I intend to go there, and I intend to make a film, about those atrocities that are taking place at the moment," the director, who lives in Lithuania, told Reuters in an interview.

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