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Sergei Loznitsa
Baranovichi, Brestskaya oblast, BSSR, USSR [now Belarus]
Sergei Vladimirovich Loznitsa (Belarusian: Сяргей Уладзіміравіч Лазніца, Ukrainian: Сергій Володимирович Лозниця, Russian: Сергей Владимирович Лозница; born 5 September, 1964; Bar…
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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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2026
Imperium
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2026
Champ de Mars
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2025
Two Prosecutors
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2025
Paleontology Lesson
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2025
The Invasion
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2023
The Natural History of Destruction
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2022
The Kiev Trial
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2021
Mr. Landsbergis
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2021
Babi Yar. Context
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2020
A Night at the Opera
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2020
Reflections
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2020
Celles qui chantent
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2019
State Funeral
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2018
The Trial
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2018
Victory Day
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2018
Donbass
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2017
A Gentle Creature
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2016
Butterflies
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2016
Austerlitz
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2015
The Event
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2015
The Old Jewish Cemetery
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2014
Over the Roads, Over the River
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2014
Maidan
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2014
The Bridges of Sarajevo
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2013
The Letter
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2012
In the Fog
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2012
The Miracle of Saint Anthony
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2010
My Joy
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2010
The Ways of the World: Vol. 1
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2008
Revue
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2008
Northern Lights
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2006
Artel
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2006
Blockade
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2004
Factory
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2003
Landscape
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2002
Portrait
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2001
The Settlement
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2000
The Halt
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1999
Life, Autumn
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