Zoya Laktionova

director, cinematographer
Biography
Zoya Laktionova was born in Mariupol, in a working-class family in 1984. Zoya first appeared in the world of documentary cinema as a character in the film Ma in 2017, and a year later, she made her first short documentary Diorama about sea mining in the Mariupol area. The film won an award in the MyStreetFilms category at the 86 Festival (Ukraine) in 2018, has been shown at numerous European film festivals and was released in cinemas in Ukraine in 2019. In 2021, Zoya premiered her short Territory of Empty Windows at DocudaysUA International Human Rights IFF. It was shown in cinemas at Molodist IFF in Kyiv and received the main award in the documentary competition of the French-Ukrainian festival MIST 2021. Before the outbreak of full-scale war launched by Russia against Ukraine, Zoya lived in Kyiv and worked as an independent artist and documentary filmmaker. Her work focuses on the themes of war, memory and personal stories.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
Ashes Settling In Layers On The Surface (2027, director), Diorama (2018)

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