The Invasion

Sergei Loznitsa is a screenwriter, theatre and film director, producer. He grew up in Kyiv, graduated in applied mathematics from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1987 and in film directing from the Russian Cinematographic Institute in Moscow in 1997. He has been making documentaries and feature films since 1996 and has directed 25 award-winning documentaries and 4 feature films. His feature debut My Joy (2010) was presented in the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival, In the Fog (2012) won the Fipresci Prize at Cannes, A Gentle Creature (2017) competed in the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival, and Donbass (2018) was awarded the Best Director Award in the Cannes programme Un Certain Regard. His documentaries Austerlitz, Process and State Funeral were presented at the Venice Film Festival. Babi Yar. Context (2021) was awarded the Golden Eye Special Jury Prize. His films are consistently presented at Scanorama.