Alona Penzii is the Head of the Archive Department at the Dovzhenko Centre, film critic and curator. Since 2018, she has been working at the Dovzhenko Centre, where she focuses on the history of Ukrainian non-fiction film, in particular animation.
She has organized retrospectives of Ukrainian cinema at international and national venues, including: Slava Ukraini! Animation (2022) at The Cinémathèque Française, Degrees of Freedom: Censorship and Propaganda in Animation (2023) at the StopTrik International Film Festival, Volodymyr Honcharov in Close-up (2023) at the LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Potatoes and Kings: Folk, Political, and Absurd in Ukrainian Animation (2024) at the Ottawa International Animation Festival and Kira Muratova Retrospective: The Absurdity of the Everyday and the Everydayness of Absurdity (2025) at the KISFF.
She has organized retrospectives of Ukrainian animation at international and national venues. She was a co-curator of film programs at the Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture (DCCC). Her curatorial work also includes the exhibitions The River Wailed Like a Wounded Beast and In a Grandiose Sundance, in a Cosmic Clatter of Torture, presented as part of the Kyiv Biennial in 2023 and 2025. In 2024, she was a participant in the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial.
She is a board member at the National Film Critics Award KINOKOLO. As a film critic, she contributed to LB.ua, Ukrainska Pravda and other media.
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