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Paleontology Lesson

The Netherlands2025documentary12'Short Film Competition

June 2023. More than a year after Russia’ invasion of Ukraine, the war is still going on in the streets, but at Kyiv’s Museum of Natural History, children can forget about it for a while. A teacher takes them for a tour of the world from millions of years ago, free from the reality of war. This is more than a lesson – it is a substitute of life without fear. Sergei Loznitsa, a winner of multiple awards at the Krakow Film Festival, returns with a documentary in which he tries to find out whether escaping into the past helps to face the present.

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Sergei Loznitsa

Ukrainian director of documentary and fiction films. In 1987 he graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic with a degree in Applied Mathematics. Between 1987 and 1991 he worked as a scientist at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics. In 1997 Loznitsa graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. He has been making documentary films from 1996, 16 of which won awards at numerous festivals. His fiction films include My Joy and In the Fog.

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