The Left-Hander

Yuri Kuzin is a film director, writer and philosopher based in St Petersburg. Born in Lviv in 1962, in 1988 he organised a conference dedicated to Andrei Tarkovsky that led to the founding of the Andrei Tarkovsky Society within the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR. He entered VGIK, the Moscow film school, in 1994 on his eighth attempt, studying in Vladimir Khotinenko’s workshop. His student film The Left-Hander, shot on a set he built himself in one of the institute’s classrooms, was selected for the Cinéfondation at Cannes in 1999 and won awards at Russian festivals including Message to Man and Kinoshock. He is the author of the novel “Luciferiada”, longlisted for the Moscow Literary Prize and the Fazil Iskander International Literary Prize. He is a member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia.