Julia LOKTEV (1969, St. Petersburg) emigrated at the age of nine to the USA. She came to filmmaking through sound rather than image. Her graduate film Moment of Impact, which she shot without a crew and edited herself, won several prizes and is in the permanent film collection of MoMA. Julia Loktev also makes multiple screen video installations. The Loneliest Planet is her second fiction feature.

Julia Loktev

A young couple, played by Gael García Bernal and Hani Furstenberg, hike through the mountains of Georgia led by a local guide. Amid the lush landscape, their relationship is severely put to the test by an unexpected event.

IFFR 2012

Loneliest Planet, The

Spectrum

The Loneliest Planet

Not a Chechen, not a Palestinian, not an Iraqi, but a white American emerges as a suicide terrorist. After meticulous preparation, meticulously filmed, she stands on Times Square in New York with a bomb in her backpack. That sounds exciting and it is. And why is she actually doing it?

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Julia Loktev

Filmography

Julia Loktev at IFFR

Day Night Day Night

The Loneliest Planet