Director
Sergei Loznitsa
62 years · Baranovichi, Brestskaya oblast, BSSR, USSR [now Belarus] · 40 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 40
Imperium
2026 · Director, Editor
Champ de Mars
2026 · Director, Screenplay
Two Prosecutors
2025 · Writer, Director
Paleontology Lesson
2025 · Director, Writer
On DocAlliance Films
The Invasion
2025 · Director, Writer
On GuideDoc
A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History
2024 · Self
The Natural History of Destruction
2023 · Director, Writer
The Kiev Trial
2022 · Director, Editor
Mr. Landsbergis
2021 · Director, Producer
Babi Yar. Context
2021 · Editor, Producer
A Night at the Opera
2020 · Writer, Director
Reflections
2020 · Director
Celles qui chantent
2020 · Director
State Funeral
2019 · Screenplay, Director
On MUBI
The Trial
2018 · Director, Screenplay
Victory Day
2018 · Director, Cinematography
Donbass
2018 · Director, Screenplay
On Kanopy
A Gentle Creature
2017 · Director, Screenplay
Butterflies
2016 · Self
On DocAlliance Films
Austerlitz
2016 · Director, Cinematography
The Event
2015 · Director, Writer
On DocAlliance Films
The Old Jewish Cemetery
2015 · Director, Writer
On DocAlliance Films
Over the Roads, Over the River
2014 · Director
Maidan
2014 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy