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Julia Loktev (born December 12, 1969) is a Russian–American film director, screenwriter, and video artist.
Day Night Day Night is a 2006 drama film written and directed by Julia Loktev. It documents 48 hours in the life of an anonymous 19-year-old as she prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. It premiered on May 25, 2006 in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 58th Annual Cannes Film Festival. [1]
The Loneliest Planet is a 2011 American drama thriller film written and directed by Julia Loktev, based on the short story Expensive Trips Nowhere by Tom Bissell, published in his collection God Lives in St. Petersburg. [2]
American filmmaker Julia Loktev (The Loneliest Planet, NYFF49), born in the Soviet Union, returned to Moscow in 2021 to make a documentary on the persistence of independent journalism in Putin’s Russia—just months, as it turned out, before the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Julia Loktev lives and works in Brooklyn. She will use the Guggenheim Fellowship to work on a new fiction feature, The Loneliest Planet . View the trailer for Julia Loktev’s film, Day Night Day Night (2006).
Aug 19, 2024 · Julia Loktev garnered international attention when her feature debut, Moment of Impact won her the Directing Award for Documentary Film at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.
Nov 12, 2012 · I spoke with Director Julia Loktev in September about her latest film, The Loneliest Planet (NYFF '11), which is now playing in select theaters nationwide. Set in the mountains of Georgia (the country), the film follows a thirtysomething couple on vacation—Nica (Hani Furstenburg) and Alex (Gael García Bernal)—who hire a guide named Dato ...
