Sergei Loznitsa: ”The way we show or write about a story must be beautiful otherwise nobody will remember it”
Sergei Loznitsa is by far one of the most important Eastern-European filmmakers and even though I have seen only two of his four fiction features – Donbass (Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2018) and A Gentle Creature (nominated for Palme D’or, 2017) it was enough to make me interested to find out more about him. So I started reading the interviews he gave, watching his first short films and gathering information. I have discovered a really smart man, profoundly attached to his roots, courageous and faithful to his film crew which he works with from the very beginning. For those of you who don’t know much about Mister Sergei Loznitsa, he worked as a scientist at the Cybernetics Institute in Kiev, where he specialized in artificial intelligence. He studies filmmaking in Moscow and in 2002 makes his debut in feature film with the documentary The Settlement – winner of the Special Mention at KVIFF. The film was the first in a row of acclaimed documentaries at top festivals. In 2007 he makes his debut in fiction films as well. His four fiction films, all filmed by Romanian DOP Oleg Mutu, bring Loznitsa a lot of awards, a confirmation that his talent transcends the documentary filmmaking.
Film producer and founder of ADFR, she dreamed since she was little of having a magazine one day. Alongside her job as editor-in-chief, she writes the interview of the month. She loves animals, jazz music and films festivals.
