Background
Loznitsa was born on 5 September 1964 in the city of Baranovichi, in Belarus.
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Loznitsa was born on 5 September 1964 in the city of Baranovichi, in Belarus.
Later the Loznitsa family moved to Kyiv, Ukraine, where Loznitsa finished high school. In 1987 he graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute as a mathematician.
At that time Belarus was part of the Soviet Union. Between 1987 and 1991 he worked in the Institute of Cybernetics. He developed expert systems, systems of design-making and work on artificial intelligence.
At the same time he worked as a translator from the Japanese.
In 1991 he entered Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, in the department of directing of play-movies in the workshop of Nana Djordjadze. In 1997 he graduated with honors.
Since 2000 he has worked as a documentary film director in Saint St. Petersburg. In 2001 he and his family moved to Germany.
In 2010 his film My Joy was selected for the main competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
Maidan had its world premiere in a special screening at Cannes in May 2014, a record of the 2013-2014 popular protests in Kyiv and their violent suppression.