Maidan

“Easily the most rigorous, vital and powerful movie of 2014.”—Michael Atkinson, Village Voice

“This stunning and epic-scaled film harkens back to the heroic, journalistic roots of documentary-making and yet feels ineffably modern and formally daring.”—Hollywood Reporter

Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, the urgent Maidan chronicles the civil uprising that toppled the government of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and has since developed into an international crisis between Russia and the West. Filmed in stunning long takes, and presented without commentary, Maidan is a record of a momentous historical event and an extraordinary study of the popular uprising as a social, cultural, and philosophical phenomenon. Historical moments can cast a crowd as their hero, but it’s rare that a film does. (128 mins., DCP)