Atoms & Void, the Netherlands-based manufacturing and gross sales firm run by Sergei Loznitsa and Maria Choustova, has closed a French sale on Loznitsa’s most up-to-date function documentary “The Invasion,” which premiered on Thursday as a Special Screening in Cannes. Potemkine Films has taken all rights for France, whereas the movie’s French co-producer ARTE France maintains its unique TV/VOD window.
“The Invasion” arrives 10 years after the discharge of Sergei Loznitsa’s epic “Maidan,” which chronicled the Ukrainian rebellion.
In his newest function documentary, Loznitsa returns to Ukraine to chronicle his nation’s battle towards the Russian invasion. Shot over a two-year interval, the movie portrays the lifetime of the civilian inhabitants throughout Ukraine – from Lviv and Odessa to Kyiv and Dnipro – and presents an announcement of Ukrainian resilience within the face of a barbaric invasion. In the second a part of his Ukrainian diptych, Loznitsa paints a monumental canvas of a nation decided to defend its proper to exist.
Loznitsa and Choustova commented: “Sergei Loznitsa’s documentary and fiction films have consistently resonated at the Cannes Film Festival and with French audiences. We are thrilled that Potemkine Films will give ‘The Invasion,’ one of Sergei’s most personal works, the big screen treatment to amplify the film’s urgent message. We anticipate that further distributors will soon join us to bring ‘The Invasion’ to theaters across Europe and worldwide.”
Nils Bouaziz of Potemkine Films added: “We are very happy about the acquisition of ‘The Invasion’ and our continuing collaboration with Sergei Loznitsa. This is a film of historical importance that we are proud to accompany and support.”
Loznitsa’s function debut “My Joy” (2010) premiered in the principle competitors at Cannes, and was adopted by the function movie “In the Fog” (2012), which was awarded the Fipresci prize at Cannes. In 2017, Loznitsa introduced his third function “A Gentle Creature” within the competitors of Cannes. In 2018, Loznitsa obtained the prize for greatest directing of the Un Certain Regard part of Cannes for his fourth function movie, “Donbass.”
Loznitsa’s feature-length documentary “Maidan” (2014), the chronicles of the Ukrainian revolution, additionally had its world premiere as a Special Screening at Cannes. His subsequent feature-length documentaries, “The Event” (2015), “Austerlitz” (2016), “The Trial” (2018) and “State Funeral” (2019) had been introduced as Special Screenings on the Venice Film Festival. In 2021, Loznitsa obtained a Special Jury Prize of the L’Oeil D’Or Award in Cannes for his movie “Babi Yar. Context.” Loznitsa continues to work on each documentary and fiction initiatives.