In January 1946, a war crimes trial was held in Kiev, Ukraine, for the Holocaust committed there during World War II. Twelve former German soldiers were summoned and tried, all sentenced to be hanged. The war crimes trial in Kiev is a little-known historical event, and Sergei Loznitsa, an expert on this matter, provides us with a rich and elaborately edited story based on vivid material found in film archives. Following on from his previous film Babi Yar. Context(2021), he summons the Holocaust in Ukraine to hint at the genocide currently taking place there. Fulfilling the mission of a documentary that understands, and preserves the memories of tragedy, The Kiev Trial delivers vividness as if watching a well-organized court drama through a logical arrangement of archived images. From the moment the camera is installed in the courtroom, the audience feels the tension as if sitting on the jury seat and listening to the testimony of the slayers, survivors, and witnesses. The ending scene showing the results of the war crimes trial is also quite shocking.​