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Babi Yar Director: Sergei Loznitsa Writer: Sergei Loznitsa Producers: Rick McCallum, Arte France Cinema U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Cast of hundreds, thousands. Documentarian filmmakers Sergei Loznitsa made a fascinating...

In 2010, Ukraine's Sergei Loznitsa was the only first time filmmaker to crack the Main Competition line-up. With My Joy (we were one of...

Once again working with Cinematographer Oleg Mutu (4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days), I'm expecting this depiction of WWII to employ the same sort of gritty realism found in his 2010 Cannes preemed My Joy, his feature film debut about a grizzly road trip gone terribly wrong was totally up my alley, but was dissed by fellow Cannes critics. The helmer describes his film as the tale “about a man trying to make a moral choice under the immoral circumstances” and with a harsh, wilderness backdrop we expect humanity to be put to test once again. We can't wait for this.

Sergei Loznitsa's My Joy (which gets released by Kino Int. sometime this year) was perhaps the odd duckling of the previous Cannes Film Festival as it was the only picture in the main competition that was from a first time feature, mostly unknown filmmaker, but the film itself was pretty out there for a road movie.

I'm glad to see that Kino Int. and film fest curators are seconding my opinion on My Joy - the road trip story from hell -- I recently wrote, I'm happy to see TIFF and NYFF programmers include this difficult film among their lineups, cuz if you like "the road less traveled" roadtrip type of movie, then you'll want to venture into documentarian Sergei Loznitsa's first narrative feature.