Babi Yar (Sergei Loznitsa)

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Paris-based Slot Machine is re-teaming with Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, whose film Donbass won Cannes’s Un Certain Regard directing prize, on his long-gestating project Babi Yar, which will mark his most ambitious film to date.

The film will chronicle the September 1941 massacre of 30,000 Jews by Nazi troops over a three-day period. Marianne Slot, the founder of Slot Machine, said Babi Yar would be a testimonial film without protagonist and a politically engaged movie that resonates with contemporary issues, such as homophobia and anti-semitism.

Babi Yar is being set up as a co-production between France, Ukraine and Romania. Source