‘Mr. Landsbergis by Sergei Loznitsa’

Vytautas Landsbergis is a music professor and a charismatic leader of the Lithuanian independence movement. In 1990, he took his country out of the Soviet Union and forced Gorbachev to recognise its sovereignty. 30 years after the historic collapse of the USSR, Mr Landsbergis shares the hidden story behind his nation's fight for independence. Loznitsa always remains vigilant in his depiction of the past and makes clever use of archival material and interviews, drawing you into this revolutionary story and make you feel like an eyewitness. Mr. Landsbergis paints a mesmerizing portrait of a man who made history.

Sergei Loznitsa was born in 1964 in Belarus, he grew up in Kiev and studied at the famous film school VGIK in Moscow. His career as a filmmaker started off in 1996 with shorter documentary works followed in 2002 by his documentary feature The Settlement. The premiere of his fiction feature debut came in 2010 with My Joy that premiered in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where two years later, In the Fog (2012) won the FIPRESCI Prize. His films have been screened and received awards at various film festivals internationally. He won Best Director at Cannes for his fourth feature film Donbass in 2018. Since 1996 Loznitsa completed 23 award-winning documentaries and five fiction films.