He was there doing side research for a project called “Babi Yar” about mass murders in World War II Ukraine. Mr. Loznitsa has never shied away from dwelling on the uncomfortable truths of history, or from finding new ways of expressing them. At last year’s Venice festival, Mr. Loznitsa presented “The Event,” a found-footage chronicle of the fall of the Soviet Union as viewed in Leningrad. Photo“I don’t know the destiny of part of my relatives, because during the Second World War, some of them disappeared,” he said. “The tourists are just looking at things like they are from another world,” Mr. Loznitsa said.

Source: International New York Times August 31, 2016 09:22 UTC