Sergueï Loznitsa

Sergei Loznitsa was born on 1964. He grew up in Kiev (Ukraine). In 1997 Loznitsa graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, where he studied feature filmmaking.
He has been making films since 1996, and by now he has directed 23 award-winning documentaries (among them the feature films Maidan, 2014; The Event 2015; Austerlitz, 2016; The Trial, 2018 and State Funeral, 2019 and four fiction films (My Joy, 2010; In the Fog, 2012; A Gentle Creature, 2017; Donbass, 2018).