Olga Samolevska

director
Education
Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University
Biography

Olga Samolevska was born in Kyiv. A graduate of the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television (Ukraine). Film director, screenwriter, poet, and journalist. Laureate and prize-winner of international film festivals; prize-winner and laureate of the All-Ukrainian “Word Coronation” competition; laureate and prize-winner of All-Ukrainian poetry festivals; nominee for the International Prize “NIKA”, the Government Prize named after Lesya Ukrainka, and the State Prize named after Taras Shevchenko. Laureate of the Kyiv Art Prize; prize-winner of the award “For Significant Contribution to World and Ukrainian Nonfiction Cinema”. Awarded the Gold Medal of the International Literary Festival “Rare Bird”. Prize-winner of the International Literary Prize “Salt of Our Earth”; laureate of the International LOGOS-SINEMA Award; prize-winner of the Arseny and Andrey Tarkovsky International Prize. Member of the Ukrainian Film Academy, the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, and the National Union of Writers of Ukraine.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
Battle (2025, contact person, director), An Island Between Wars (2027, director), Dam (2023, director), Flow (2022, director), Not a Time for Children (2018, director), Eternal Sky (2012, director), The First Lady of the Estrangement Zone (2009, director), Earth Inhabitants (2008, director), Triptych (2003, director), Kateryna Bilokur. A Message (2002, director), A Touch (1999, director), Stabat Mater (1995, director), Memento vivere (1994, director), Will the Doctor Return? (1993, director), In Memory of the Destroyed Buildings (1988, director), It Will Be a Lot of Light (1986, director), I Ask Myself (1985, director), I’m Afraid to Draw My Mother (1984, director), Olexandr Dovzshenko (1982, director)

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