Maidan is a documentary movie. The world premiere occurred on the 67th Cannes Festival in May 2014. Well-known Sergei Loznitsa became the film director and the camera operator of this movie. The plot provides a chronology of the Maidan events starting from the peaceful protests to the grim, bloody struggles on the city streets. This is a story of the popular revolt against the bandit regime of the president.

While watching the movie, one can see the documentary covered all the events occurred on Kyiv's Maidan starting from 2013. This is a vision of historically important changes for people by the Ukrainian director. Common people are the main in the movie as well as on Maidan, - that's the idea he tried to get across to the viewers. Sergei Loznitsa managed to stick to the middle ground. The viewer is given an opportunity to see an everyday life of people on Maidan and violent confrontation between police and protesters. The movie narrative is occurring through objective and absolutely unbiased documentary shots in keeping with the chronicle. Though all the information is given concisely, it's still quite comprehensive and doesn't miss the point. Professional operator's work managed to reflect a lot of expressive scenes almost always centred on common people. The director underlines that every person who was there tried his best to create a new history. Some of them were cooking, some people were building barricades, the other ones were helping in another way. At first, it may seem that the camera stays in one place for too long. But then you realise that this action is justified, as absolutely everyone who got caught in the lens is important! In such a way the director is trying to understand each person, to find out the reason why he or she is there, his mood and state. All this is to estimate each person as an individual of great significance but not as a detail in an endless tide of history…

People who made this movie have done their utmost to get through to the viewers. You can see all these soulful and truly important events by watching the movie Maidan in good quality.