Sergei Loznitsa (right) during his masterclass at the Visions du Réel documentary festival that takes place every year in Nyon in western Switzerland.

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Sergei Loznitsa, one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of his generation, was recently subject of a retrospective at Visions du Réel, the major Swiss documentary festival. Born in Belarus and raised in Ukraine, Loznitsa is unrelenting in his reckoning with Russia’s imperial power. So why is he highly controversial in Ukraine?

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