Context, is a 2021 documentary film by the Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa that explores the prelude and aftermath of the World War II massacre of nearly 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar in Kyiv, Ukraine in September 1941.

[3] In the wake of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in August 1941, Nazi Einsatzgruppen killing squads slaughtered Jews in Ukraine and other areas overrun by their armies in Eastern Europe.

Several times a week he used to take a bus to a swimming pool, and on the way back walk past the Babi Yar ravine, and would encounter gravestones written in a "strange language."

In a director's statement provided to the European Film Awards, Loznitsa recalled that one day, once he encountered a new stone indicating in Russian that a monument would be built there.

Footage also shows testimony at the trial by a survivor and by Hans Isenmann, one of the SS perpetrators of the massacre, as well as scenes from the Red Army's November 1943 recapture of Kyiv.

[4][3][6] The film shows Ukrainians greeting the Nazi invaders, and as well as scenes of joyous Red Army prisoners being released to their families by the Germans in 1941.

"[3] Slant Magazine's review said that the film provides "living documents of a past that, as is all too clear, reverberate into the present with devastating force."

"[4] Simon Abrams of RogerEbert.com gave the film two and a half out of four stars, and said that the "footage is never so meaningful as to overcome the distracting nature of Loznitsa’s obvious streamlining/narrativizing of the past."

"[7] Variety reviewer Jay Weissberg said the film "has power but falls short of the director’s greatest works, largely because his span here is considerably longer, and in consequence the focus suffers.