7PM: DOCUMENTARY AND TALK – In contrast with most documentaries made in the wake of an historic event, MAIDAN (2014, 134 min) will last be-yond the current Ukrainian upheaval to stand as compelling witness and a model response to a seminal moment too fresh to be fully processed. Going back to his nonfiction roots, Kiev-raised helmer Sergei Loznitsa uses almost exclusively fixed master shots filmed from December 2013 to February 2014, capturing in an emotionally gripping, minimalist way the protest’s trajectory from euphoric to besieged. Beyond the film’s immediacy, “Maidan” is an im-pressive, bold treatment of a complex subject via rigidly formalist means.

The film screening is accompanied by a talk with Jim Brooke, former editor of the Khmer Times. Jim has a decade of experience working in and out of Ukraine. After briefly serving as CEO of “The Kyiv Post”, he now is preparing to launch, on Sept. 1, the “Ukraine Business Journal”, an online publication.

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