Nadia Parfan

director, producer
Biography

Nadia Parfan is a film director, creative producer and cultural activist from Kyiv, Ukraine. She studied at the Wajda Film School in Poland. Her feature documentary Heat Singers was commissioned by NHK Japan and awarded Best Documentary by the Ukrainian Film Academy and the Ukrainian Film Critics’ Union (2019). Her debut fiction short It’s a Date received a Special Jury Mention at Berlinale (2023). Her short I Did Not Want To Make a War Film (2023) was commissioned by The New Yorker. She has recently finished a playful documentary comissioned by Suspline TV Birds and Beasts (2026) about Ukrainian-American artist Jaques Hnizdovsky and cat Jerome. Nadia is a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy, the head of Ukrainian Documentary Assosiation, and a Film Independent Fellow. 

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
The Amateur (2028, director, contact person), I Did Not Want To Make a War Film (2023, director), It’s a Date (2023, director), Heat Singers (2019, director)
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