L'Invasion
Sergei Loznitsa
Netherlands, France, United States | 2024 | 140 min
Languages : Ukrainian, Russian
Subtitles : French, English
A decade after Maidan, Loznitsa films the civilian population striving to live “normally” despite the Russian war of aggression. Filmed over a period of two years from Lviv to Odessa, via Kyiv and Dnipro, this new epic, a genuine archive for the future, paints a monumental portrait of a nation determined to defend its right to exist.
Sergei Loznitsa’s most recent feature-length documentary, The Invasion, opens as Maidan concluded – with a funeral procession. The civilians who fell under the bullets of Yanukovych’s pro-Russian regime have been replaced by soldiers defending their country against a war of aggression driven by an absurd rationale. Composed of long, static takes filmed over two years across the four corners of Ukraine, the film creates a vast fresco devoted to a civilian population striving to live a “normal” life under conditions that are anything but. The fluid editing arranges the sequences like a series of micro-fictions of reality, or assembles them according to recurring motifs following a subtle pendulum-like movement: while some bathe in the icy waters of a river for religious reasons, war amputees struggle to regain a semblance of mobility in the pool of a rehabilitation centre – just one example among a rich and abundant corpus. By recording the signs of war etched into his country’s landscape, the filmmaker further underscores the astonishing vitality of a people standing firm against their own annihilation.
Emmanuel Chicon
Emmanuel Chicon
Champ de Mars, 2026
Two Prosecutors, 2025Paleontology lesson, 2025L'Invasion, 2024The Kiev Trial, 2022The Natural History of Destruction, 2022Mr. Landsbergis, 2021Babi Yar. Contexte, 2021A Night at the Opera, 2020State Funeral, 2019The Trial, 2018Reflections, 2018Donbass, 2018A Gentle Creature, 2017Austerlitz, 2016The Event, 2015The Old Jewish Cemetery, 2015Bridges of Sarajevo, 2014Maidan, 2014The Letter, 2013The Miracle of Saint Anthony, 2012In the Fog, 2012My Joy, 2010Northern Light, 2008Revue, 2008Artel, 2006Blockade, 2006Factory, 2004Landscape, 2003The Settlement, 2002Portrait, 2002The Train Stop, 2000
Life, Autumn, 1998
Today We Are Going To Build A House, 1996
Two Prosecutors, 2025Paleontology lesson, 2025L'Invasion, 2024The Kiev Trial, 2022The Natural History of Destruction, 2022Mr. Landsbergis, 2021Babi Yar. Contexte, 2021A Night at the Opera, 2020State Funeral, 2019The Trial, 2018Reflections, 2018Donbass, 2018A Gentle Creature, 2017Austerlitz, 2016The Event, 2015The Old Jewish Cemetery, 2015Bridges of Sarajevo, 2014Maidan, 2014The Letter, 2013The Miracle of Saint Anthony, 2012In the Fog, 2012My Joy, 2010Northern Light, 2008Revue, 2008Artel, 2006Blockade, 2006Factory, 2004Landscape, 2003The Settlement, 2002Portrait, 2002The Train Stop, 2000
Life, Autumn, 1998
Today We Are Going To Build A House, 1996
Screenings and tickets
Monday 20 April 2026 18:15
Capitole Fellini, Nyon
Screenplay
Sergei Loznitsa
Photography
Evgeny AdamenkoPiotr Pawlus
Editing
Danielius KokanauskisSergei Loznitsa
Sound
Vladimir Golovnitski
Production
Sergei LoznitsaMaria Choustova
