Sergei Loznitsa

Sergei Loznitsa
Native name	Сяргей Уладзіміравіч Лазніца
Born	(1964-09-05) 5 September 1964 Baranovichi, Brest Voblast, Belorussian SSR, USSR
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1996–present
Website	http://www.loznitsa.com
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Sergei Loznitsa (Belarusian: Сяргей Уладзіміравіч Лазніца, Russian: Серге́й Влади́мирович Лозни́ца, Ukrainian: Сергій Володимирович Лозниця) (born 5 September 1964) is a Belarusian-Ukrainian director known for his documentary as well as dramatic films.

Biography

Loznitsa was born on 5 September 1964 in the city of Baranovichi, in Belarus. At that time Belarus was part of the Soviet Union. Later the Loznitsa family moved to Kyiv, Ukraine, where Loznitsa finished high school.

In 1987 he graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute as a mathematician. Between 1987 and 1991 he worked in the Institute of Cybernetics. He developed expert systems, systems of design-making and work on artificial intelligence. At the same time he worked as a translator from the Japanese.

In 1991 he entered Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, in the department of directing of play-movies in the workshop of Nana Djordjadze. In 1997 he graduated with honors.

Since 2000 he has worked as a documentary film director in Saint Petersburg. In 2001 he and his family moved to Germany.

In 2010 his film My Joy was selected for the main competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. His 2012 film In the Fog competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Maidan had its world premiere in a special screening at Cannes in May 2014, a record of the 2013-14 popular protests in Kyiv and their violent suppression.

Selected filmography

• 2010 Щастя моє / My Joy
• 2012 У тумані / In the Fog
• 2014 Майдан / Maidan
• 2015 Подія / Event

External links

• Sergei Loznitsa at the Internet Movie Database