Biography

Marta Smerechynska (b. 1997) is a Ukrainian documentary filmmaker educated at KNUTKiT in Kyiv, La Fémis in Paris, and the DocNomads Master’s program in Portugal, Hungary, and Belgium. Her films have been screened at 30+ film festivals, including Visions du Réel and the Sarajevo FF. Marta's feature-length debut documentary focuses on reconnecting with her sister, who has become a nun, by exploring life in her new home — a remote women's monastery in the West of Ukraine. Her recent works explore Ukraine’s wartime experience.