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Born in Baranavichy, Belarus, in the former Soviet Union, in 1964, he grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine. He graduated in applied mathematics from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and worked as an artificial intelligence researcher at the city’s Institute of Cybernetics before studying film at the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. He has lived in Germany since 2001. His work alternates between fiction and documentary, and many of his films are constructed from archival footage of Soviet history. He directed, among others, the documentaries “The Settlement” (2001) and “Landscape” (2003) and the fiction films “My Joy” (2010, 34th Mostra), presented at the Cannes Film Festival, and “In the Fog” (2012), winner of the Critics Prize at Cannes. In 2012, the 36th Mostra held a retrospective of his work, and the following year, Loznitsa was a member of the international jury at the 37th Mostra. He went on to direct films such as “Maidan” (2014), “Austerlitz” (2016), “A Gentle Creature” (2017), “Donbass” (2018), which won him the best director award in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, and “State Funeral” (2019). He also directed the short film “A Night at the Opera” (2020, 44th Mostra), the documentary “Babi Yar. Context” (2021), special mention for best documentary at Cannes, and the fiction film “Two Prosecutors” (2025), presented at the same festival.