in Toronto 2010 - german films

Contemporary World Cinema
MY JOY
My Joy is a tale of a truck driver Georgy. He leaves his home town with a load of goods, but he is forced to take
a wrong turn on the motorway, and finds himself in the middle of nowhere. Georgy tries to find his way,
but gradually, against his will, he becomes drawn into the daily life of a Russian village. In a place where
brutal force and survival instincts overcome humanity and common sense, the truck driver’s story heads for
a dead end...
Genre Drama Year of Production 2010 Director Sergei Loznitsa Screenplay Sergei Loznitsa Director of
Photography Oleg Mutu Producers Heino Deckert, Oleg Kokhan Co-Producers Leontine Petit, Marleen Slot,
Joost de Vries Production Company ma.ja.de fiction/Leipzig, in co-production with SOTA Cinema Group/Kiev,
Lemming Film/Amsterdam Principal Cast Viktor Nemets, Alisa Slepyan, Vladimir Golovin, Olga Shuvalova,
Maria Varsami, Boris Kamorzin, Vlad Ivanov, Pavel Vorozhtsov, Dmitriy Bykovskiy Length 127 min Format 35
mm, color, cs Original Version Russian Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby Digital Festivals
Cannes 2010 (In Competition), Karlovy Vary 2010, Kinotavr Open Sochi 2010, Sarajevo 2010, Toronto 2010
Awards Best Direction & Russian Film Scholars & Critics' “White Elephant” Award Sochi 2010
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Sergei Loznitsa was born in 1964 in Baranovichi in the former USSR. He grew up in Kiev, and in 1987
graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic with a degree in Applied Mathematics. From 1987-1991, he was
employed at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics, working on artificial intelligence research. He also worked
as a translator for Japanese. In 1997 Sergei Loznitsa graduated from the Russian State Institute of
Cinematography (VGIK). He studied feature film making in the class of Nana Dzhordzhadze. From 2000 - 2008
he worked at the St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. In 2001, he and his family moved to Germany.
A selection of his award-winning films includes: the documentaries Today We Are Going to Build a House
(1996), Life, Autumn (1998), The Train Stop (2000), Settlement (2001), Portrait (2002), Landscape (2003),
Factory (2004), Blockade (2005), Artel (2006), Revue (2008), and the feature My Joy (2010).
Screenings
Public:
11 Sept. 18:15 Varsity 7
13 Sept. 14:15 AMC 4
19 Sept. 20:00 Jackman Hall – AGO
Press & Industry:
9 Sept. 12:00 NFB
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