Eugene Kotlyarenko

Directing

Eugene Kotlyarenko

Born

1986-01-01 (40)

Place of birth

Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]

Known for

Directing

Credits

50 titles

Eugene Kotlyarenko is a Ukrainian-American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. His feature writing-directing work includes 0s & 1s (2011), A Wonderful Cloud (2015), Wobble Palace (2018), We Are (2020) and Spree (2020). Kotlyarenko was born in Odesa to a Jewish-Ukrainian family. He grew up in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn and on Long Island, attending Columbia University before moving to Los Angeles. In 2010, He made his directorial debut, SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission), starring Kate Lyn Sheil, Lawrence Michael Levine, and Sophia Amoruso. The next year, He co-wrote, edited, and directed 0s & 1s, starring Morgan Krantz, Jeremy Blackman, Matty Cardarople,…

Known for

Primetime poster
6.9

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered dream of fame curdles into a nightmare of performative justice.

Primetime

2026

The Carpenter's Son poster
6.0

A remote village in Roman-era Egypt explodes into spiritual warfare when a carpenter, his wife and their child are targeted by supernatural forces.

The Carpenter's Son

2025

Spree poster
6.4

Desperate for an online following, a rideshare driver has figured out a deadly plan to go viral and he will stop at nothing to get his five minutes of fame.

Spree

2020

Vintage Violence poster
NR

When a disgraced livestreamer discovers a trove of rare vintage denim in a Colorado mine, he follows it to Tokyo and straight into the arms of a woman who may be using him. Caught between desire and betrayal, he soon finds himself entangled in black-market turf wars, yakuza, and a past that refuses to stay buried.

Vintage Violence

2026

The Beaches of Agnès poster
7.7

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.

The Beaches of Agnès

2008

The Water Is Always Warm poster
NR

Follows the dissolution of a friendship as one friend becomes involved in a controversial religion. The haunted comedy unfolds through a series of dinners over the course of several years, each date farther apart than the last.

The Water Is Always Warm

2026

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

2010s · 6 titles

Behind the camera

The Carpenter's Son poster
6.0

A remote village in Roman-era Egypt explodes into spiritual warfare when a carpenter, his wife and their child are targeted by supernatural forces.

The Carpenter's Son

2025

Spree poster
6.4

Desperate for an online following, a rideshare driver has figured out a deadly plan to go viral and he will stop at nothing to get his five minutes of fame.

Spree

2020

Spree poster
6.4

Desperate for an online following, a rideshare driver has figured out a deadly plan to go viral and he will stop at nothing to get his five minutes of fame.

Spree

2020

Spree poster
6.4

Desperate for an online following, a rideshare driver has figured out a deadly plan to go viral and he will stop at nothing to get his five minutes of fame.

Spree

2020

Vintage Violence poster
NR

When a disgraced livestreamer discovers a trove of rare vintage denim in a Colorado mine, he follows it to Tokyo and straight into the arms of a woman who may be using him. Caught between desire and betrayal, he soon finds himself entangled in black-market turf wars, yakuza, and a past that refuses to stay buried.

Vintage Violence

2026

Vintage Violence poster
NR

When a disgraced livestreamer discovers a trove of rare vintage denim in a Colorado mine, he follows it to Tokyo and straight into the arms of a woman who may be using him. Caught between desire and betrayal, he soon finds himself entangled in black-market turf wars, yakuza, and a past that refuses to stay buried.

Vintage Violence

2026

Vintage Violence poster
NR

When a disgraced livestreamer discovers a trove of rare vintage denim in a Colorado mine, he follows it to Tokyo and straight into the arms of a woman who may be using him. Caught between desire and betrayal, he soon finds himself entangled in black-market turf wars, yakuza, and a past that refuses to stay buried.

Vintage Violence

2026

Magic Farm poster
5.7

A misguided American documentary crew working for an edgy media company travels to rural Argentina to profile a local musician, but their ineptitude leads them into the wrong small town. As they collaborate with locals to attempt to fabricate a viral trend, unexpected connections blossom, while a pervasive crisis looms unacknowledged in the background.

Magic Farm

2025

The Code poster
6.5

While isolated at a remote rental house early in the pandemic, a recently canceled man grows dangerously paranoid about his portrayal in his partner's documentary on their failing relationship and installs hidden cameras to spy on her.

The Code

2025

The Code poster
6.5

While isolated at a remote rental house early in the pandemic, a recently canceled man grows dangerously paranoid about his portrayal in his partner's documentary on their failing relationship and installs hidden cameras to spy on her.

The Code

2025

The Code poster
6.5

While isolated at a remote rental house early in the pandemic, a recently canceled man grows dangerously paranoid about his portrayal in his partner's documentary on their failing relationship and installs hidden cameras to spy on her.

The Code

2025

0s & 1s poster
4.5

Los Angeles, 2006. Life is Easy 2.0 for James Pongo. He has a cushy job, a busy social life and an alluring love interest all through the click of a mouse. But when he wakes up after a night of reckless partying to discover that his computer is missing, James' hyper-connected reality takes a nosedive. Told entirely through the websites, programs, games and social networks, 0s & 1s uses James Pongo's nihilistic adventure to question our growing dependency on these alternate digital realities.

0s & 1s

2011

0s & 1s poster
4.5

Los Angeles, 2006. Life is Easy 2.0 for James Pongo. He has a cushy job, a busy social life and an alluring love interest all through the click of a mouse. But when he wakes up after a night of reckless partying to discover that his computer is missing, James' hyper-connected reality takes a nosedive. Told entirely through the websites, programs, games and social networks, 0s & 1s uses James Pongo's nihilistic adventure to question our growing dependency on these alternate digital realities.

0s & 1s

2011

SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission) poster
2.0

A young man, reeling from a long-distance romance gone awry, spirals increasingly deeper into depression and desperation as he video chats with his close friends and gets involved with a New Age, Right-wing, domestic terrorist cell.

SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission)

2010

SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission) poster
2.0

A young man, reeling from a long-distance romance gone awry, spirals increasingly deeper into depression and desperation as he video chats with his close friends and gets involved with a New Age, Right-wing, domestic terrorist cell.

SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission)

2010

SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission) poster
2.0

A young man, reeling from a long-distance romance gone awry, spirals increasingly deeper into depression and desperation as he video chats with his close friends and gets involved with a New Age, Right-wing, domestic terrorist cell.

SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission)

2010

Harka poster
6.8

Ali is a young Tunisian who dreams of a better life and ekes out a lonely existence selling contraband oil on the black market. When his father dies, he is forced to care for his two younger sisters who have been left to their own devices in a house from which they will soon be evicted. As he wrestles with the sudden weight of responsibility and the injustices he faces, anger and indignation stir within Ali – that of a generation still fighting to be heard more than a decade after the revolution…

Harka

2022

No artwork available
NR

Follows a teenage Vietnamese refugee's initiation into a ruthless New York gang in Chinatown during the late 1980s, a feral crime-drama in the vein of City of God.

Born to Kill

—

A Wonderful Cloud poster
4.9

When Eugene’s ex-GF Katelyn lands in LA to disband their business, the two of them must negotiate between past tensions and future possibilities, in this raw bittersweet rom-com that walks the line between fiction and reality.

A Wonderful Cloud

2015

A Wonderful Cloud poster
4.9

When Eugene’s ex-GF Katelyn lands in LA to disband their business, the two of them must negotiate between past tensions and future possibilities, in this raw bittersweet rom-com that walks the line between fiction and reality.

A Wonderful Cloud

2015

Wobble Palace poster
5.4

A couple on the verge of a nervous break-up decide to split their home over the weekend and test the waters of independence.

Wobble Palace

2018

Wobble Palace poster
5.4

A couple on the verge of a nervous break-up decide to split their home over the weekend and test the waters of independence.

Wobble Palace

2018

We Are poster
5.0

When Doug - a hapless employee at a VR startup - is forced to work the night shift, he becomes fast friends with a squatting vagrant named Stick. Increasingly belittled by his domineering wife, Vera, and the company's reckless owner, Vikas, Doug falls under Stick's charming spell over the course of several delirious nights. As the two of them bond over the nature of reality, virtual and otherwise, Stick begins empowering Doug to take back control of his life...but to what end?

We Are

2020

We Are poster
5.0

When Doug - a hapless employee at a VR startup - is forced to work the night shift, he becomes fast friends with a squatting vagrant named Stick. Increasingly belittled by his domineering wife, Vera, and the company's reckless owner, Vikas, Doug falls under Stick's charming spell over the course of several delirious nights. As the two of them bond over the nature of reality, virtual and otherwise, Stick begins empowering Doug to take back control of his life...but to what end?

We Are

2020

We Are poster
5.0

When Doug - a hapless employee at a VR startup - is forced to work the night shift, he becomes fast friends with a squatting vagrant named Stick. Increasingly belittled by his domineering wife, Vera, and the company's reckless owner, Vikas, Doug falls under Stick's charming spell over the course of several delirious nights. As the two of them bond over the nature of reality, virtual and otherwise, Stick begins empowering Doug to take back control of his life...but to what end?

We Are

2020

The Straight Ball poster
4.0

Funny, twitchy portrait of a date derailed.

The Straight Ball

2022

No artwork available
NR

7 students experience sublime weirdness and brush their teeth.

7 Transcendental Operations

2006

Feast of Burden poster
1.3

A group of old friends gather for a dinner party full of dark secrets, mysterious forces and deadly consequences.

Feast of Burden

2012

Feast of Burden poster
1.3

A group of old friends gather for a dinner party full of dark secrets, mysterious forces and deadly consequences.

Feast of Burden

2012

[0's & 1's] poster
NR

A Eugene Kotlyarenko short planting the ideas of what would eventually become his debut feature under the same name

[0's & 1's]

2005

[0's & 1's] poster
NR

A Eugene Kotlyarenko short planting the ideas of what would eventually become his debut feature under the same name

[0's & 1's]

2005

Crimea poster
NR

iPhone video diary of the first half of Kotlyarenko's 24th year, very much in the style of Jonas Mekas' "Walden".

Crimea

2013

Crimea poster
NR

iPhone video diary of the first half of Kotlyarenko's 24th year, very much in the style of Jonas Mekas' "Walden".

Crimea

2013

Crimea poster
NR

iPhone video diary of the first half of Kotlyarenko's 24th year, very much in the style of Jonas Mekas' "Walden".

Crimea

2013

Candelabra poster
NR

An artist returns to Virginia Beach to find out more about the mysterious death of a former friend.

Candelabra

2014

No artwork available
NR

"A short lil' documentary I made about my family in late 2006, when I was ~20yo" - Eugene Kotlyarenko

No Word for "Grandparents" in Russian

2011