TWO PROSECUTORS

Sergei Loznitsa was born in 1964 in Baranovichi, USSR (now Belarus), and raised in Kyiv, Ukraine. A graduate of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Applied Mathematics (1987), he began his career as a researcher in artificial intelligence at the Kyiv Institute of Cybernetics before turning to cinema. In 1997, he graduated from the prestigious VGIK film school in Moscow. Since 1996, Loznitsa has directed over 25 acclaimed documentaries and several narrative features. His debut fiction film, My Joy (2010), premiered in Competition at Cannes, followed by In the Fog (2012), winner of the FIPRESCI Prize, and Donbass (2018), which earned him the Best Director Award in Un Certain Regard. His documentaries Babi Yar. Context and Mr. Landsbergis (both 2021) received major prizes at Cannes and IDFA, respectively. In 2013, he founded his production company Atoms & Void.