Director of
TWO PROSECUTORS
Sergei Loznitsa was born in 1964 in the city of Baranovitchi, USSR (now Belarus) and grew up in Kiev, Ukraine, graduating from the Kiev Polytechnic with a degree in Applied Mathematics in 1987. From 1987 to 1991, he worked as a scientist at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics, specializing in artificial intelligence research. In 1997, Loznitsa graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. Sergei Loznitsa has been making films since 1996, and by now has directed 28 award-winning documentaries and 5 fiction films.
Loznitsa’s feature debut MY JOY (2010) premiered in the main competition in Cannes. His films – both fiction and documentary – have been recognized with major awards including the FIPRESCI prize at the Festival de Cannes for IN THE FOG in 2012, the Best Director Prize of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section for his feature film DONBASS in 2018, a Special Jury Prize of the L’Oeil D’Or Award in Cannes for BABI YAR. CONTEXT in 2021, as well as the IDFA Award for Best Film for MR. LANDSBERGIS that same year; among many other international awards.
In 2013 Sergei Loznitsa founded the film production company ATOMS & VOID. Based in Europe since 2001, Sergei Loznitsa continues to work on both documentary and fiction projects.
Film selection: FABRIKA (2004), ARTEL (2006), PREDSTAVLENIE (2008), O MILAGRE DE SANTO ANTONIO (2012), MAIDAN (2014), PONTS DE SARAJEVO (2014), THE OLD JEWISH CEMETERY (2015), SOBYTIE (2015), AUSTERLITZ (2016), DONBASS (2018), STATE FUNERAL (2019) BABI YAR. CONTEXT (2021) MR LANDSBERGIS (2021) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION THE INVASION TWO PROSECUTORS – (2025)