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About Maryna Vroda
Maryna Vroda was born in Kiev and graduated from the Kiev National
University of Theatre, Cinematography and Television in 2007. After her
studies she worked with Sergei Loznitsa on his film "My Joy" (2010). Her short films have been shown at many festivals. In 2011 she won the Palme D'Or for best short film in Cannes with "Cross-Country". The film was also shown in the international competition of Kurzfilmtage Winterthur.
Maryna is currently working on her first feature film "Stepne''.
In her films, Maryna analyzes different facets of departure and farewell and processes them cinematically. Her stories are also strongly connected with her own family and her home country. She skilfully manages to poetically fuse the above-mentioned themes, her own social observations as well as political commentaries on her homeland into her very own cinematic signature.
Maryna herself said in an interview: "The cinema can be a tool for us. With it we can change the people and the image of Ukraine in the world."
John Canciani
University of Theatre, Cinematography and Television in 2007. After her
studies she worked with Sergei Loznitsa on his film "My Joy" (2010). Her short films have been shown at many festivals. In 2011 she won the Palme D'Or for best short film in Cannes with "Cross-Country". The film was also shown in the international competition of Kurzfilmtage Winterthur.
Maryna is currently working on her first feature film "Stepne''.
In her films, Maryna analyzes different facets of departure and farewell and processes them cinematically. Her stories are also strongly connected with her own family and her home country. She skilfully manages to poetically fuse the above-mentioned themes, her own social observations as well as political commentaries on her homeland into her very own cinematic signature.
Maryna herself said in an interview: "The cinema can be a tool for us. With it we can change the people and the image of Ukraine in the world."
John Canciani
Film awards
| Year | Award | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Crossing Europe [at] | Nominated |
| 2024 | Filmfest Hamburg [de] | Winner |
| 2023 | Grimme Award [de] | Nominated |
| 2023 | Locarno Film Festival [ch] | Winner |
Awards
| Year | Award |
|---|---|
| 2011 | Winner of the Cannes Film Festival for the short film CROSS-COUNTRY |
Training
| Year | |
|---|---|
| 2016/10 to 2022/3 | Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf [de] |
Basic data
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
|---|---|
| Languages | EnglishGermanRussianUkrainian |
| Education | Maryna Vroda was born in Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2007, she graduated from the Cinematography and TV faculty at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary University of Theater, Cinematography and Television with a specialization in feature film directing. During her studies in Kyiv she attended the workshops of Mikhail Illenko and Valery Sivak. After graduating, she worked with Sergei Loznitsa. In 2008, her short student films were entered for international film festivals both in Eastern and Western Europe and her film CROSS-COUNTRY was nominated for the Golden Starfish Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival in 2011 and won the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film in the same year at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2010 Maryna was a participant at the Berlinale Talent Campus and used the Residence Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2013 to write the script for the film STEPNE. In 2016 she studied for a Master at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg. Living in Kyiv and in Berlin now. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2979212/ https://www.berlinale-talents.de/bt/talent/maryna-vroda/profile https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/artist/maryna-vroda https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1826951159 |
| Immediate working area | Berlin |
| 2nd residence (if applicable) | Kyiv |
| Tax residence (federal state or country) | Germany - Berlin |
| Accommodation possibilities | Berlin, Kyiv |