Sergei Loznitsa: Filmmaker in Residence

January 30–February 8, 2025

We welcome the celebrated Ukrainian director of Belarusian origin Sergei Loznitsa for a ten-day residency, during which time he will speak about his work in documentary, feature filmmaking, and short form.

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  • Sergei Loznitsa: The Invasion, 2024

  • Sergei Loznitsa: In the Fog, 2012

  • Sergei Loznitsa: Babi Yar. Context, 2021

  • Sergei Loznitsa: State Funeral, 2019

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Upcoming Films

  • The Invasion

    Sergei Loznitsa
    Netherlands, France, 2024

    Bay Area Premiere

    Thursday, January 30 7:00 PM
    Sergei Loznitsa in Person

    Working with a crew of cinematographers positioned in different regions of Ukraine, Sergei Loznitsa created a film that recounts the actions of the people who have resisted oppression on a daily basis since the Russian invasion began.

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  • Babi Yar. Context

    Sergei Loznitsa
    Netherlands, Ukraine, 2021
    Friday, January 31 2:30 PM
    Sergei Loznitsa and Nicholas Baer in Conversation

    Based entirely on archival footage (official documentation mixed with private footage shot by soldiers and civilians), Sergei Loznitsa’s film recounts the massacre of 33,771 Jews in the Babi Yar Ravine in Kyiv.

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  • The Natural History of Destruction

    Sergei Loznitsa
    Germany, 2022
    Saturday, February 1 2:30 PM
    Sergei Loznitsa and Deniz Göktürk in Conversation

    An intense work of archival documentary filmmaking inspired by W. G. Sebold’s essay on the devastation of World War II urban bombing campaigns.

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  • State Funeral

    Sergei Loznitsa
    Netherlands, Lithuania, 2019
    Saturday, February 1 6:30 PM
    Sergei Loznitsa and Anne Nesbet in Conversation

    Archival imagery of the news and state funeral for Joseph Stalin. “This expertly constructed rearranging of archival and propaganda footage is the rare film to merit immediate status as a canonical work” (Jay Weissberg, Variety).

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  • Donbass

    Sergei Loznitsa
    Germany, Ukraine, France, Netherlands, Romania, 2018
    Sunday, February 2 3:45 PM
    Sergei Loznitsa and Polina Barskova in Conversation

    A journey through the Donbass unfolds as a chain of curious adventures, in which the grotesque and dramatic are as intertwined as life and death. 

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  • Mosse Lecture: Sergei Loznitsa

    Free Admission

    Wednesday, February 5 7:00 PM
    Sergei Loznitsa and Deniz Göktürk in Conversation

    Factory showcases Sergei Loznitsa’s approach to nonfiction, working with original camerawork and mining the archives for imagery, with the annual Mosse Lecture.

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  • In the Fog

    Sergei Loznitsa
    Germany, Latvia, Russia, Netherlands, Belarus, 2012
    Friday, February 7 2:30 PM
    Sergei Loznitsa in Person

    Two partisans plan to kill a Belarusian railway worker suspected of Nazi sympathies in Sergei Loznitsa’s dreamlike narrative film. “A masterpiece” (David Thomson).

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  • A Gentle Creature

    Sergei Loznitsa
    France, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands, 2017
    Saturday, February 8 6:00 PM
    Sergei Loznitsa and Eric Naiman in Conversation

    “A captivating, hallucinatory plunge into Russia’s atrophied civil society, in which a woman’s search for answers is rewarded with humiliation and abuse” (Jay Weissberg, Variety).

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Past Films