It was then announced that Loznitsa had been expelled from the Ukrainian Film Academy for opposing the boycott of Russian films.
The Russian state should be tried for historical crimes committed by the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa has said before the premiere of his new documentary, The Kiev Trial, at Venice.
“But also trial against the state of the Soviet Union about crimes they did starting from 1917 and ending with collapse of Soviet Union.
“At the end of this war, there must be a trial against all war crimes which Russian army and Russian politicians did in Ukraine,” he said.