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Film director and philosopher
Country of origin
Ukraine

Polina Kundirenko (*1997) studies film directing at the Babelsberg Konrad Wolf Film University, but also works on short films. She previously completed her studies at the National Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv with a Bachelor of Philosophy. Her main interest is fictional film, especially surrealist cinema. She worked for the Molodist Festival Kyiv and was a member of the ecumenical jury at the Short Film Festival Oberhausen in 2020.

Current issues

Land of A Thousand and One Nights and Persian poetry, Iran has turned cinema into the art of suggestion: when speech is monitored, the image becomes a poem and editing a figure of style.
Commentary on the award ceremony at the Venice International Film Festival 2025. By Peter Paul Huth

Events

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2

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