Maidan

Sergei Loznitsa was born in Belarus in 1964. Later Loznitsa family moved to Kiev, Ukraine, where he finished high school and Math studies. He worked as a scientist in the Institute of Cybernetics and also as a translator from the Japanese. In 1997 he graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), where he studied feature film making. Loznitsa has been making documentary films since 1996, and has directed 13 award-winning documentaries, such as Settlement (2001), Landscape (2003), Blockade (2005), The Revue (2008). Director’s feature debut My Joy (2010) premiered in the main competition of the Festival de Cannes. His second feature film In the Fog was screened in the competition of the 65th Festival de Cannes in 2012, and awarded with the FIPRESCI prize.