Paleontology Lesson

synopsis

In another of his portraits of everyday life in Ukraine during the Russian occupation, Sergei Loznitsa takes us on an excursion to the National Museum of Natural History in Kiev, one of the largest in the world. Together with a school class, we attend a lecture on palaeontology between two air raid sirens. The teacher talks enthusiastically about dinosaurs and spiny fish, and the children listen to him with curiosity and amusement. For a moment, the lively commentary transports us along with them to a world millions of years away, where Russian missiles have not crossed the sky, but in many ways was as ruthless as the current reality of war.

biography

Sergei Loznitsa (born 1964) is a Ukrainian filmmaker born in Belarus, a graduate of Kiev Polytechnic and Moscow's VGIK. He has made a number of documentaries and feature films that have been screened at prestigious festivals. He has participated four times in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival, most recently this year with the courtroom drama Two Prosecutors.

film details

director:	Sergei Loznitsa
producer:	Sergei Loznitsa, Maria Choustova
script:	Sergei Loznitsa
photography:	Evgeny Adamenko
editing:	Danielius Kokanauskis, Sergei Loznitsa
sound:	Vladimir Golovnitski