Sergey Loznitsa nació el 5 de septiembre de 1964 en Baranovichi, Brestskaya oblast, BSSR, USSR [ahora Belarus]. Es un director y productor, conocido por Donbass (2018), Krotkaya (2017) y Schaste moe (2010).
On 18 March 2022 the Ukrainian Film Academy excluded Sergey Loznitsa from its membership. The director called it the act of "Nazism". The Ukrainian Film Academy appealed "to the world community not to position Sergey Loznitsa as a representative of the Ukrainian cultural sphere".
