Sergei Loznitsa
Sergei Vladimirovich Loznitsa (Belarusian: Сяргей Уладзіміравіч Лазніца, Ukrainian: Сергій Володимирович Лозниця, Russian: Сергей Владимирович Лозница; born 5 September, 1964; Baranovichi, Brest Voblast) is a Ukrainian director of Belarusian origin known for his documentary as well as dramatic films.
Born in 1964, Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa grew up in Kyiv, and graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic in 1987 with a degree in Applied Mathematics. In 1997, Loznitsa graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, where he studied feature filmmaking. Sergei Loznitsa has directed 18 documentary films since 1996 and has received numerous international awards, including festival prizes in Karlovy Vary, Leipzig, Oberhausen, Krakow, Paris, Madrid, Toronto, Jerusalem and St. Petersburg, as well as the Russian National Film awards “Nika” and “Laurel”. Loznitsa’s feature debut My Joy (2010) premiered in competition at the Festival de Cannes, and was followed by In the Fog, which also premiered in competition at the Festival de Cannes in May 2012, where it was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize. His feature film A Gentle Creature premiered in competition at the Festival de Cannes in May 2017.
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Movies (42)
Imperium
2026 · Director, Editor
Champ de Mars
2026 · Director, Screenplay
Two Prosecutors
2025 · Writer, Director, Producer, Co-Producer
Paleontology Lesson
2025 · Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
La invasión
2025 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History
2024 · Self
The Natural History of Destruction
2023 · Director, Writer, Producer
The Kiev Trial
2022 · Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
Mr. Landsbergis
2021 · Director, Producer, Screenplay
Babi Yar. Context
2021 · Screenplay, Producer, Editor, Director
A Night at the Opera
2020 · Writer, Director
Celles qui chantent
2020 · Director
State Funeral
2019 · Screenplay, Director, Producer
The Trial
2018 · Director, Screenplay, Editor, Producer
Victory Day
2018 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Screenplay
Donbass
2018 · Director, Screenplay, Associate Producer
A Gentle Creature
2017 · Director, Screenplay
Butterflies
2016 · Self
Austerlitz
2016 · Director, Director of Photography, Writer
The Event
2015 · Director, Editor, Writer, Producer
The Old Jewish Cemetery
2015 · Director, Writer
Over the Roads, Over the River
2014 · Director
Maidan
2014 · Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
Reflections
2014 · Director
The Bridges of Sarajevo
2014 · Director
Letter
2013 · Director
In the Fog
2012 · Director, Screenplay
The Miracle of Saint Anthony
2012 · Director, Director of Photography
My Joy
2010 · Director, Screenplay
The Ways of the World: Vol. 1
2010 · Director
Revue
2008 · Director
Northern Light
2008 · Director
Artel
2006 · Director
Blockade
2006 · Screenplay, Director
Factory
2004 · Director
Landscape
2003 · Director, Editor, Writer
The Settlement
2002 · Editor, Director
Portrait
2002 · Director
The Halt
2000 · Director, Editor
Life, Autumn
1999 · Director, Editor
Today We Are Going to Build a House
1996 · Director
09.05.2022
· Producer
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