Sergei Loznitsa

Sergei Loznitsa

Nacimiento : 1964-09-05, Baranovichi, Brestskaya oblast, BSSR, USSR [now Belarus]

Historia

Sergei Vladimirovich Loznitsa (Belarusian: Сяргей Уладзіміравіч Лазніца, Russian: Сергей Владимирович Лозница, Ukrainian: Сергій Володимирович Лозниця; born 5 September, 1964; Baranovichi, Brest Voblast) is a Ukrainian director of Belarusian origin known for his documentary as well as dramatic films. Born in 1964, Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa grew up in Kiev, and graduated from Kiev Polytechnic in 1987 with a degree in Applied Mathematics. In 1997, Loznitsa graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, where he studied feature filmmaking. Sergei Loznitsa has directed 18 documentary films since 1996 and has received numerous international awards, including festival prizes in Karlovy Vary, Leipzig, Oberhausen, Krakow, Paris, Madrid, Toronto, Jerusalem and St. Petersburg, as well as the Russian National Film awards “Nika” and “Laurel”. Loznitsa’s feature debut My Joy (2010) premiered in competition at the Festival de Cannes, and was followed by In the Fog, which also premiered in competition at the Festival de Cannes in May 2012, where it was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize. His feature film A Gentle Creature premiered in competition at the Festival de Cannes in May 2017.

Perfil

Sergei Loznitsa
Sergei Loznitsa

Películas

Independence Day
Director
Viennale 2022 Trailer
Babi Yar. Context
Producer
Entre el 29 y el 30 de septiembre de 1941, el Sonderkommando 4a del Einsatzgruppe C, con la ayuda de dos batallones del Regimiento de la Policía del Sur y de la Policía Auxiliar Ucraniana, y sin que la población local opusiera ningún tipo de resistencia, fusiló a 33.771 judíos en el barranco de Babi Yar, al noroeste de Kiev. La película reconstruye el contexto histórico de esta tragedia con imágenes de archivo que documentan la ocupación alemana de Ucrania y la década posterior.
Babi Yar. Context
Editor
Entre el 29 y el 30 de septiembre de 1941, el Sonderkommando 4a del Einsatzgruppe C, con la ayuda de dos batallones del Regimiento de la Policía del Sur y de la Policía Auxiliar Ucraniana, y sin que la población local opusiera ningún tipo de resistencia, fusiló a 33.771 judíos en el barranco de Babi Yar, al noroeste de Kiev. La película reconstruye el contexto histórico de esta tragedia con imágenes de archivo que documentan la ocupación alemana de Ucrania y la década posterior.
Babi Yar. Context
Screenplay
Entre el 29 y el 30 de septiembre de 1941, el Sonderkommando 4a del Einsatzgruppe C, con la ayuda de dos batallones del Regimiento de la Policía del Sur y de la Policía Auxiliar Ucraniana, y sin que la población local opusiera ningún tipo de resistencia, fusiló a 33.771 judíos en el barranco de Babi Yar, al noroeste de Kiev. La película reconstruye el contexto histórico de esta tragedia con imágenes de archivo que documentan la ocupación alemana de Ucrania y la década posterior.
Babi Yar. Context
Director
Entre el 29 y el 30 de septiembre de 1941, el Sonderkommando 4a del Einsatzgruppe C, con la ayuda de dos batallones del Regimiento de la Policía del Sur y de la Policía Auxiliar Ucraniana, y sin que la población local opusiera ningún tipo de resistencia, fusiló a 33.771 judíos en el barranco de Babi Yar, al noroeste de Kiev. La película reconstruye el contexto histórico de esta tragedia con imágenes de archivo que documentan la ocupación alemana de Ucrania y la década posterior.
The Kiev Trial
Editor
The Kiev Trial, also known as the ‘Kiev Nuremberg’, took place in January of 1946 in the Soviet Union, and was one of the first post-war trials convicting German Nazis and their collaborators. 15 criminals, guilty of atrocities, which were later identified by the Nuremberg trials as “crimes against humanity”, faced justice in case No.1679 “On the atrocities committed by fascist invaders on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.” Using unique, previously unseen, archive footage, Sergei Loznitsa reconstructs key moments of the proceedings, including statements of the defendants and testimonies of the witnesses, survivors of Auschwitz and Babi Yar among them. The film lays bare the ‘banality of evil’ and is devastatingly relevant today, as Ukrainian people are once again being subjected to the violence of barbarian invaders.
The Kiev Trial
Producer
The Kiev Trial, also known as the ‘Kiev Nuremberg’, took place in January of 1946 in the Soviet Union, and was one of the first post-war trials convicting German Nazis and their collaborators. 15 criminals, guilty of atrocities, which were later identified by the Nuremberg trials as “crimes against humanity”, faced justice in case No.1679 “On the atrocities committed by fascist invaders on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.” Using unique, previously unseen, archive footage, Sergei Loznitsa reconstructs key moments of the proceedings, including statements of the defendants and testimonies of the witnesses, survivors of Auschwitz and Babi Yar among them. The film lays bare the ‘banality of evil’ and is devastatingly relevant today, as Ukrainian people are once again being subjected to the violence of barbarian invaders.
The Kiev Trial
Writer
The Kiev Trial, also known as the ‘Kiev Nuremberg’, took place in January of 1946 in the Soviet Union, and was one of the first post-war trials convicting German Nazis and their collaborators. 15 criminals, guilty of atrocities, which were later identified by the Nuremberg trials as “crimes against humanity”, faced justice in case No.1679 “On the atrocities committed by fascist invaders on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.” Using unique, previously unseen, archive footage, Sergei Loznitsa reconstructs key moments of the proceedings, including statements of the defendants and testimonies of the witnesses, survivors of Auschwitz and Babi Yar among them. The film lays bare the ‘banality of evil’ and is devastatingly relevant today, as Ukrainian people are once again being subjected to the violence of barbarian invaders.
The Kiev Trial
Director
The Kiev Trial, also known as the ‘Kiev Nuremberg’, took place in January of 1946 in the Soviet Union, and was one of the first post-war trials convicting German Nazis and their collaborators. 15 criminals, guilty of atrocities, which were later identified by the Nuremberg trials as “crimes against humanity”, faced justice in case No.1679 “On the atrocities committed by fascist invaders on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.” Using unique, previously unseen, archive footage, Sergei Loznitsa reconstructs key moments of the proceedings, including statements of the defendants and testimonies of the witnesses, survivors of Auschwitz and Babi Yar among them. The film lays bare the ‘banality of evil’ and is devastatingly relevant today, as Ukrainian people are once again being subjected to the violence of barbarian invaders.
The Natural History of Destruction
Writer
Is it morally acceptable to use the civilian population as yet another tool for waging war? Is it possible to justify death and destruction for the sake of supposedly lofty ideals? The question remains as pertinent today as it was at the beginning of World War II, and it is becoming increasingly urgent to answer, as countless tragedies have been caused by unethical political decisions.
The Natural History of Destruction
Producer
Is it morally acceptable to use the civilian population as yet another tool for waging war? Is it possible to justify death and destruction for the sake of supposedly lofty ideals? The question remains as pertinent today as it was at the beginning of World War II, and it is becoming increasingly urgent to answer, as countless tragedies have been caused by unethical political decisions.
The Natural History of Destruction
Director
Is it morally acceptable to use the civilian population as yet another tool for waging war? Is it possible to justify death and destruction for the sake of supposedly lofty ideals? The question remains as pertinent today as it was at the beginning of World War II, and it is becoming increasingly urgent to answer, as countless tragedies have been caused by unethical political decisions.
Mr. Landsbergis
Screenplay
This film about the Baltic nation of Lithuania from 1989 to 1991, when it broke away from the Soviet Union. This period of peaceful protests involving lots of singing came to be known as the "singing revolution."
Mr. Landsbergis
Producer
This film about the Baltic nation of Lithuania from 1989 to 1991, when it broke away from the Soviet Union. This period of peaceful protests involving lots of singing came to be known as the "singing revolution."
Mr. Landsbergis
Director
This film about the Baltic nation of Lithuania from 1989 to 1991, when it broke away from the Soviet Union. This period of peaceful protests involving lots of singing came to be known as the "singing revolution."
A Night at the Opera
Writer
A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.
A Night at the Opera
Director
A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.
Reflections
Director
The film shows life in contemporary Sarajevo as reflected through glass covers of the black-and-white photos of its defenders, taken by the Bosnian photographer Milomir Kovacevic in 1992 during the siege of the city.
Celles qui chantent
Director
From an Iranian village to the Palais Garnier, from a hospital in Villejuif in the South of Algeria, voices are raised ... Four filmmakers, Julie Deliquet, Karim Moussaoui, Sergei Loznitsa and Jafar Panahi film songs of women and evoke in their own way, the world in which each of them lives.
State Funeral
Producer
El enigma del culto a la personalidad se revela en el gran espectáculo del funeral de Stalin. La película se basa en imágenes de archivo únicas, filmadas en la URSS del 5 al 9 de marzo de 1953, cuando el país lamentó y enterró a Joseph Stalin.
State Funeral
Screenplay
El enigma del culto a la personalidad se revela en el gran espectáculo del funeral de Stalin. La película se basa en imágenes de archivo únicas, filmadas en la URSS del 5 al 9 de marzo de 1953, cuando el país lamentó y enterró a Joseph Stalin.
State Funeral
Director
El enigma del culto a la personalidad se revela en el gran espectáculo del funeral de Stalin. La película se basa en imágenes de archivo únicas, filmadas en la URSS del 5 al 9 de marzo de 1953, cuando el país lamentó y enterró a Joseph Stalin.
Victory Day
Screenplay
Every year, on the 9th of May, people gather in Treptower Park in Berlin. They come dressed in their best outfits or in Soviet military uniform. They carry flags, banners and posters. They lay flowers at the monument to the Soviet soldier; they sing, dance and drink. They celebrate the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany.The film is a direct reportage from Treptower Park 72 years after the victory.
Victory Day
Director of Photography
Every year, on the 9th of May, people gather in Treptower Park in Berlin. They come dressed in their best outfits or in Soviet military uniform. They carry flags, banners and posters. They lay flowers at the monument to the Soviet soldier; they sing, dance and drink. They celebrate the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany.The film is a direct reportage from Treptower Park 72 years after the victory.
Victory Day
Producer
Every year, on the 9th of May, people gather in Treptower Park in Berlin. They come dressed in their best outfits or in Soviet military uniform. They carry flags, banners and posters. They lay flowers at the monument to the Soviet soldier; they sing, dance and drink. They celebrate the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany.The film is a direct reportage from Treptower Park 72 years after the victory.
Victory Day
Director
Every year, on the 9th of May, people gather in Treptower Park in Berlin. They come dressed in their best outfits or in Soviet military uniform. They carry flags, banners and posters. They lay flowers at the monument to the Soviet soldier; they sing, dance and drink. They celebrate the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany.The film is a direct reportage from Treptower Park 72 years after the victory.
The Trial
Producer
1930. Moscú. Un grupo de grandes economistas e ingenieros están acusados de planear un golpe de estado contra el gobierno soviético. Se les acusa de pactar con el primer ministro francés, Raymond Poincaré, para derribar el comunismo y establecer el capitalismo. Tras una creación de pruebas falsas y acusaciones forzadas, son obligados a testificar por un crimen que no cometieron. La corte sentencia la pena capital.
The Trial
Screenplay
1930. Moscú. Un grupo de grandes economistas e ingenieros están acusados de planear un golpe de estado contra el gobierno soviético. Se les acusa de pactar con el primer ministro francés, Raymond Poincaré, para derribar el comunismo y establecer el capitalismo. Tras una creación de pruebas falsas y acusaciones forzadas, son obligados a testificar por un crimen que no cometieron. La corte sentencia la pena capital.
The Trial
Editor
1930. Moscú. Un grupo de grandes economistas e ingenieros están acusados de planear un golpe de estado contra el gobierno soviético. Se les acusa de pactar con el primer ministro francés, Raymond Poincaré, para derribar el comunismo y establecer el capitalismo. Tras una creación de pruebas falsas y acusaciones forzadas, son obligados a testificar por un crimen que no cometieron. La corte sentencia la pena capital.
The Trial
Director
1930. Moscú. Un grupo de grandes economistas e ingenieros están acusados de planear un golpe de estado contra el gobierno soviético. Se les acusa de pactar con el primer ministro francés, Raymond Poincaré, para derribar el comunismo y establecer el capitalismo. Tras una creación de pruebas falsas y acusaciones forzadas, son obligados a testificar por un crimen que no cometieron. La corte sentencia la pena capital.
Donbass
Associate Producer
En la histórica región de Donbass, en el este de Ucrania, a pesar de la cruel guerra que se viene librando desde 2014 entre las autoproclamadas Repúblicas Populares de Donetsk y Luhansk y el Gobierno ucraniano, la gente trata de sobrevivir en el podrido corazón del caos, donde la violencia se disfraza de paz, la propaganda se convierte en unívoca verdad y el odio reina en nombre del amor.
Donbass
Screenplay
En la histórica región de Donbass, en el este de Ucrania, a pesar de la cruel guerra que se viene librando desde 2014 entre las autoproclamadas Repúblicas Populares de Donetsk y Luhansk y el Gobierno ucraniano, la gente trata de sobrevivir en el podrido corazón del caos, donde la violencia se disfraza de paz, la propaganda se convierte en unívoca verdad y el odio reina en nombre del amor.
Donbass
Director
En la histórica región de Donbass, en el este de Ucrania, a pesar de la cruel guerra que se viene librando desde 2014 entre las autoproclamadas Repúblicas Populares de Donetsk y Luhansk y el Gobierno ucraniano, la gente trata de sobrevivir en el podrido corazón del caos, donde la violencia se disfraza de paz, la propaganda se convierte en unívoca verdad y el odio reina en nombre del amor.
A Gentle Creature
Screenplay
Inspirada en el relato de Dostoyevski de 1876, 'La sumisa'. Una mujer viaja a una cárcel en una región remota para averiguar qué le ha pasado a su marido después de que un envío para él fuera devuelto sin explicación.
A Gentle Creature
Director
Inspirada en el relato de Dostoyevski de 1876, 'La sumisa'. Una mujer viaja a una cárcel en una región remota para averiguar qué le ha pasado a su marido después de que un envío para él fuera devuelto sin explicación.
Butterflies
himself
Alexey is shooting a movie about himself. He is in search of a boyfriend. Everything would be alright, if Alexey's mother could accept his sexuality. Alexey comes to visit her and admits that he likes boys, saying 'Don't you anticipate any grandchildren from me'. We find Alexey at Tarkovsky film festival, where he apparently came to rest. Alexey meets Grisha, and a stormy holiday romance begins.
Austerlitz
Writer
The new film from Sergei Loznitsa (Maidan, The Event) is a stark yet rich and complex portrait of tourists visiting the grounds of former Nazi extermination camps, and a sometimes sardonic study of the relationship (or the clash) between contemporary culture and the sanctity of the site.
Austerlitz
Director of Photography
The new film from Sergei Loznitsa (Maidan, The Event) is a stark yet rich and complex portrait of tourists visiting the grounds of former Nazi extermination camps, and a sometimes sardonic study of the relationship (or the clash) between contemporary culture and the sanctity of the site.
Austerlitz
Director
The new film from Sergei Loznitsa (Maidan, The Event) is a stark yet rich and complex portrait of tourists visiting the grounds of former Nazi extermination camps, and a sometimes sardonic study of the relationship (or the clash) between contemporary culture and the sanctity of the site.
The Event
Producer
In August 1991 a failed coup d'état attempt (known as Putsch) led by a group of hard-core communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets. The USSR collapsed soon after, and the tricolour of the sovereign Russian Federation flew over Kremlin. As president Gorbachev was detained by the coup leaders, state-run TV and radio channels, usurped by the putschists, broadcast Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" instead of news bulletins, and crowds of protestors gathered around Moscow's White House, preparing to defend the stronghold of democratic opposition led by Boris Yeltsin, in the city of Leningrad thousands of confused, scared, excited and desperate people poured into the streets to become a part of the event, which was supposed to change their destiny. A quarter of a century later, Sergei Loznitsa revisits the dramatic moments of August 1991 and casts an eye on the event which was hailed worldwide as the birth of "Russian democracy".
The Event
Writer
In August 1991 a failed coup d'état attempt (known as Putsch) led by a group of hard-core communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets. The USSR collapsed soon after, and the tricolour of the sovereign Russian Federation flew over Kremlin. As president Gorbachev was detained by the coup leaders, state-run TV and radio channels, usurped by the putschists, broadcast Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" instead of news bulletins, and crowds of protestors gathered around Moscow's White House, preparing to defend the stronghold of democratic opposition led by Boris Yeltsin, in the city of Leningrad thousands of confused, scared, excited and desperate people poured into the streets to become a part of the event, which was supposed to change their destiny. A quarter of a century later, Sergei Loznitsa revisits the dramatic moments of August 1991 and casts an eye on the event which was hailed worldwide as the birth of "Russian democracy".
The Event
Editor
In August 1991 a failed coup d'état attempt (known as Putsch) led by a group of hard-core communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets. The USSR collapsed soon after, and the tricolour of the sovereign Russian Federation flew over Kremlin. As president Gorbachev was detained by the coup leaders, state-run TV and radio channels, usurped by the putschists, broadcast Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" instead of news bulletins, and crowds of protestors gathered around Moscow's White House, preparing to defend the stronghold of democratic opposition led by Boris Yeltsin, in the city of Leningrad thousands of confused, scared, excited and desperate people poured into the streets to become a part of the event, which was supposed to change their destiny. A quarter of a century later, Sergei Loznitsa revisits the dramatic moments of August 1991 and casts an eye on the event which was hailed worldwide as the birth of "Russian democracy".
The Event
Director
In August 1991 a failed coup d'état attempt (known as Putsch) led by a group of hard-core communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets. The USSR collapsed soon after, and the tricolour of the sovereign Russian Federation flew over Kremlin. As president Gorbachev was detained by the coup leaders, state-run TV and radio channels, usurped by the putschists, broadcast Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" instead of news bulletins, and crowds of protestors gathered around Moscow's White House, preparing to defend the stronghold of democratic opposition led by Boris Yeltsin, in the city of Leningrad thousands of confused, scared, excited and desperate people poured into the streets to become a part of the event, which was supposed to change their destiny. A quarter of a century later, Sergei Loznitsa revisits the dramatic moments of August 1991 and casts an eye on the event which was hailed worldwide as the birth of "Russian democracy".
The Old Jewish Cemetery
Writer
Jewish cemetery in Riga, Latvia became a park in the 1960s. Now the park becomes a place for alcoholics and American tourists, but still he last witness of violent history. A film dedicated to Jewish community.
The Old Jewish Cemetery
Director
Jewish cemetery in Riga, Latvia became a park in the 1960s. Now the park becomes a place for alcoholics and American tourists, but still he last witness of violent history. A film dedicated to Jewish community.
Over the Roads, Over the River
Director
Seven versions of Riga, the city on the Baltic Sea, and its features as seen by outstanding European film directors: Sergei Loznitsa (The Old Jewish Cemetery), Ivars Seleckis (On Ķīpsala), Audrius Stonys (Riga Boats), Jaak Kilmi (Littering Prohibited!), Jon Bang Karlsen (Cats in Riga), Rainer Komers (Daugava Delta), and Bettina Henkel (Theatre Street 6).
Los puentes de Sarajevo
Director
Lo curioso de esta película es el hecho de que hasta trece cineastas van a aportar su pequeño granito de arena con la intención de mostrar varias perspectivas acerca de Sarajevo, exhibiendo con ello una serie de lecciones sobre los aspectos más ilusionantes pero también más crueles de dicho territorio en el viejo continente. La trama arranca en el desarrollo de la Primera Guerra Mundial, siguiendo a continuación con muchos de los sucesos ocurridos en uno de los puntos más destacados en lo que se refiere a la evolución histórica de Europa en el siglo XX.
Maidan
Director of Photography
Una mirada weismaniana a los disturbios civiles que acontecieron en la plaza central de la capital de Ucrania, documento único e insobornable de lo que realmente ocurrió en aquellos turbulentos meses. La historia frente a nuestros ojos. En Maidan se dan discursos, se conversa y se canta pero, sobre todo, es punto de encuentro y unión. Maidan, la Plaza de la Independencia de Kiev, el equivalente a la Puerta del Sol madrileña, fue el escenario del particular 15M del pueblo ucraniano: excepcional movimiento popular cuya mecha fue encendida por la negativa del presidente Yanukovych a entrar en la Unión Europea. Una película urgente –terminada apenas a tiempo para Cannes– del gran Sergei Loznitsa (In the Fog).
Maidan
Editor
Una mirada weismaniana a los disturbios civiles que acontecieron en la plaza central de la capital de Ucrania, documento único e insobornable de lo que realmente ocurrió en aquellos turbulentos meses. La historia frente a nuestros ojos. En Maidan se dan discursos, se conversa y se canta pero, sobre todo, es punto de encuentro y unión. Maidan, la Plaza de la Independencia de Kiev, el equivalente a la Puerta del Sol madrileña, fue el escenario del particular 15M del pueblo ucraniano: excepcional movimiento popular cuya mecha fue encendida por la negativa del presidente Yanukovych a entrar en la Unión Europea. Una película urgente –terminada apenas a tiempo para Cannes– del gran Sergei Loznitsa (In the Fog).
Maidan
Writer
Una mirada weismaniana a los disturbios civiles que acontecieron en la plaza central de la capital de Ucrania, documento único e insobornable de lo que realmente ocurrió en aquellos turbulentos meses. La historia frente a nuestros ojos. En Maidan se dan discursos, se conversa y se canta pero, sobre todo, es punto de encuentro y unión. Maidan, la Plaza de la Independencia de Kiev, el equivalente a la Puerta del Sol madrileña, fue el escenario del particular 15M del pueblo ucraniano: excepcional movimiento popular cuya mecha fue encendida por la negativa del presidente Yanukovych a entrar en la Unión Europea. Una película urgente –terminada apenas a tiempo para Cannes– del gran Sergei Loznitsa (In the Fog).
Maidan
Director
Una mirada weismaniana a los disturbios civiles que acontecieron en la plaza central de la capital de Ucrania, documento único e insobornable de lo que realmente ocurrió en aquellos turbulentos meses. La historia frente a nuestros ojos. En Maidan se dan discursos, se conversa y se canta pero, sobre todo, es punto de encuentro y unión. Maidan, la Plaza de la Independencia de Kiev, el equivalente a la Puerta del Sol madrileña, fue el escenario del particular 15M del pueblo ucraniano: excepcional movimiento popular cuya mecha fue encendida por la negativa del presidente Yanukovych a entrar en la Unión Europea. Una película urgente –terminada apenas a tiempo para Cannes– del gran Sergei Loznitsa (In the Fog).
The Letter
Director
A remote village in the Northwest of Russia. A mental asylum is located in an old wooden house. The place and its inhabitants seem to be untouched by civilization. In this pristine setting, no articulate human voice is heard, and pain is muted. The landscapes and buildings are not so much inhabited as lightly entwined and then passed through by their anonymous residents, like some creeping mist. Phantoms half stuck, half undone in a phantom world—lost persons from a lost society?
En la niebla
Screenplay
Segunda Guerra Mundial, año 1942. En la frontera rusa, los partisanos de la resistencia bielorrusa luchan encarnizadamente contra la ocupación nazi. A través de la historia de dos partisanos cuyos caminos confluyen, el relato denuncia la irracionalidad y la crueldad de la guerra. Adaptación de la novela homónima del prolífico escritor bielorruso Vasiliy Vladimirovich Bykov.
En la niebla
Director
Segunda Guerra Mundial, año 1942. En la frontera rusa, los partisanos de la resistencia bielorrusa luchan encarnizadamente contra la ocupación nazi. A través de la historia de dos partisanos cuyos caminos confluyen, el relato denuncia la irracionalidad y la crueldad de la guerra. Adaptación de la novela homónima del prolífico escritor bielorruso Vasiliy Vladimirovich Bykov.
The Miracle of Saint Anthony
Cinematography
In the middle of June the village of Santo Antonio de Mixoes da Serra in the Valdreu region of Northern Portugal honours its Patron Saint with a very special festival. On this day the local farmers bring their animals to the church – cows, horses, dogs, cats, chickens, rabbits – to be blessed. This ancient tradition is passed from generation to generation, and today, just as hundreds of years ago, animals and people flock up the mountain roads to the church square to become a part of the religious festival. The film is about this miracle.
The Miracle of Saint Anthony
Director
In the middle of June the village of Santo Antonio de Mixoes da Serra in the Valdreu region of Northern Portugal honours its Patron Saint with a very special festival. On this day the local farmers bring their animals to the church – cows, horses, dogs, cats, chickens, rabbits – to be blessed. This ancient tradition is passed from generation to generation, and today, just as hundreds of years ago, animals and people flock up the mountain roads to the church square to become a part of the religious festival. The film is about this miracle.
My Joy
Screenplay
Georgy is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man with disturbing stories about his younger days in the Army. After next picking up a young woman who works as a prostitute and is wary of the territory, Georgy finds himself lost, and despite asking some homeless men for help, he’s less sure than he was before of how to make his way back where he belongs. As brutal images of violence and alienation cross the screen, Georgy’s odyssey becomes darker and more desperate until it reaches an unexpected conclusion.
My Joy
Director
Georgy is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man with disturbing stories about his younger days in the Army. After next picking up a young woman who works as a prostitute and is wary of the territory, Georgy finds himself lost, and despite asking some homeless men for help, he’s less sure than he was before of how to make his way back where he belongs. As brutal images of violence and alienation cross the screen, Georgy’s odyssey becomes darker and more desperate until it reaches an unexpected conclusion.
Revue
Director
As he did with his critically-acclaimed "Blockade," a documentary re-creation of the WWII siege of Leningrad, which received its NY theatrical premiere in March 2007, filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa has once again scoured the Russian film archives for "Revue," selecting excerpts from newsreels, propaganda films, TV shows and feature films that present an evocative portrait of Soviet life during the 1950s and 1960s. With scenes taken from the length and breadth of the “Soviet Motherland,” "Revue" illustrates industry and agriculture, political life, popular culture, and technology. The film’s fascinating flow of disparate scenes representing typical Soviet life of the period is, seen from today’s perspective, alternately poignant, funny, and tragic
Northern Lights
Director
Just before winter cloaks everything in the Arctic night, a few hours of daylight linger in late autumn in the village of Sumskoy Posad, one thousand kilometres north of Saint Petersburg, in Karelia, on the shores of the White Sea. Linked to the rest of the country by a vague muddy track and a stretch of railway line, the village lives in a suspended and mysterious dimension. This is the Russia of endless forests and potato fields. A few robust and uncompromising characters work calmly there, driven by no vital needs. This is a still happy and cold Russia.
Artel
Director
'Artel' portrays one day in the life of a small fisher community in the north of Russia.
Bloqueo
Screenplay
El sitio más largo durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial tuvo lugar en Leningrado. Duró 900 días, desde Septiembre de 1941 hasta Enero de 1944, cuando Hitler trató de matar de hambre a una población de tres millones de personas. Se estima que el número de ciudadanos que murieron por hambre, enfermedad o congelación ronda entre los 641.000 y los 800.000. "Bloqueo" es la dramática demostración del poder del material de archivo, mezclado con una evocativa banda sonora, para devolver la vida a la Historia.
Bloqueo
Director
El sitio más largo durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial tuvo lugar en Leningrado. Duró 900 días, desde Septiembre de 1941 hasta Enero de 1944, cuando Hitler trató de matar de hambre a una población de tres millones de personas. Se estima que el número de ciudadanos que murieron por hambre, enfermedad o congelación ronda entre los 641.000 y los 800.000. "Bloqueo" es la dramática demostración del poder del material de archivo, mezclado con una evocativa banda sonora, para devolver la vida a la Historia.
Fábrica
Director
Femenino/masculino, duro/suave, frío/calor, continuo/discontinuo, fragmentado/entero: coreografía de un día/noche en la fábrica.
Landscape
Writer
Winter. A bus stop in a small village. People are waiting for a bus. They talk. Listening to their conversations, the viewer can imagine the world they live in. United by the movement of the camera, the place and the people blend together.
Landscape
Editor
Winter. A bus stop in a small village. People are waiting for a bus. They talk. Listening to their conversations, the viewer can imagine the world they live in. United by the movement of the camera, the place and the people blend together.
Landscape
Director
Winter. A bus stop in a small village. People are waiting for a bus. They talk. Listening to their conversations, the viewer can imagine the world they live in. United by the movement of the camera, the place and the people blend together.
Portrait
Director
This movie is a collection of portraits of residents of Russian countryside. Not a single word. Only long look into the camera. Landscape. Flow of time.
The Settlement
Director
This movie is about a day in life of the settlement for people with mental problems. Located in a peaceful countryside, it conveys an image of a pure, happy place, where people live and work together, in complete harmony. But there is a growing unexplainable feeling of anxiety and hopelessness.
The Halt
Editor
Por una parte, un tren que viaja de noche sin detenerse en ninguna parada. Por otra, varias personas que esperan en la estación se han quedado dormidas. El tren y la gente se cruzan pero nadie parece inmutarse.
The Halt
Director
Por una parte, un tren que viaja de noche sin detenerse en ninguna parada. Por otra, varias personas que esperan en la estación se han quedado dormidas. El tren y la gente se cruzan pero nadie parece inmutarse.
Life, Autumn
Editor
It was filmed in rural Russia, near the city of Smolensk. It shows a small village, where all young people are gone and only older people are left.
Life, Autumn
Director
It was filmed in rural Russia, near the city of Smolensk. It shows a small village, where all young people are gone and only older people are left.
Today We Are Going to Build a House
Director
This movie is about one day on the construction site.
Factory
Director
Masculine and feminine, hard and soft, continues and interrupted, whole and fragmented. All that is encompassed by just one day at the factory.
Stalinův státní pohřeb
Director