Sergei Loznitsa against the tide? While several Ukrainian film personalities called on the Croisette for a total boycott of Russian artists, the director of Donbass judged on Tuesday in an interview with AFP that “deciding who are good and bad is grotesque“.
“This attitude is inhuman. How do you define the concept of Russian? Are you Russian because of your passport, your citizenship? Of your ethnicity? It’s a slippery slope“, estimated the filmmaker who came to present The Natural History of Destructiona documentary about the destruction of German cities by the Allies during World War II.
“I am firmly convinced that we must judge people on their statements, their individual actions and not according to their passports. Each individual case should be judged on its own merits“, he said again.