Marysia Nikitiuk

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

Marysia Nikitiuk is an award-winning Ukrainian screenwriter and film director. Her debut feature, When the Trees Fall, received the Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for Best Script and premiered in Berlinale Panorama in 2018. She co-wrote Evge / Homeward by Nariman Aliev, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019. In 2026, Marysia co-directed the documentary Traces with Alisa Kovalenko, which won the Audience Award in Berlinale Panorama.


Alongside her fiction work, Marysia has collaborated with the Voices of Children Foundation on art-based rehabilitation projects with teenagers affected by war, and created a trilogy of short films exploring war trauma.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
Traces (2026, director), The Best Years (2026), Generation (2025), Lucky Girl (2022), When The Trees Fall (2018)

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