State Funeral is available on Mubi and in UK cinemas from 21 May. The ongoing project of the prolific Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsaâs nonfiction work, continued in State Funeral, might be described as one of bearing witness to people bearing witness to history â observing the manner in which individuals strive to find the âappropriateâ response to the import of a historical moment, and in the process making a viewer aware of the limitations of what can be understood of peopleâs interior lives through the cameraâs scrutiny. In 2016âs Austerlitz, the subjects are tourists filing through Nazi death camps; in 2018âs Victory Day, itâs visitors, mostly from the former USSR, to the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park near Berlin, commemorating the anniversary of the unconditional surrender of the city to Soviet occupiers.Â