Marysia Nikitiuk

Directing

Marysia Nikitiuk

Born 1986-01-01 · Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kyiv, Ukraine]

Marysia Nikitiuk (Ukranian: Марися Нікітюк; born in 1986; Kyiv) is a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and fiction writer. She wrote and directed When the Trees Fall (2018) and co-wrote Homeward (2019), both of which have drawn recognition as among the best Ukrainian films. Nikitiuk also directed Lucky Girl (2021) and published a collection of short fiction, The Abyss (2016), which won the Oles Ulianenko International Literary Prize. Nikitiuk was born in 1986. She attended Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv's Institute of Journalism, graduating in 2007. She then earned a master's degree in theater studies at Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University, focusing on Japanese theater.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

In Trees poster
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Two degenerates, the soft sentimental Styopa and the Ukrainian street smart rough and macho Kolya rob the unfinished country houses during a winter's night. Using the alcoholic infused skills of a theif they only manage to steal a satellite dish and a street lamp. At sunrise, they're chased by dogs guarding this area.

In Trees

2014

In Trees poster
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Two degenerates, the soft sentimental Styopa and the Ukrainian street smart rough and macho Kolya rob the unfinished country houses during a winter's night. Using the alcoholic infused skills of a theif they only manage to steal a satellite dish and a street lamp. At sunrise, they're chased by dogs guarding this area.

In Trees

2014

Laces poster
NR

The film through allegory tells a story of the relationship between two ends of one shoelace while they still are not aware of being one thing.

Laces

2016

Lucky Girl poster
5.9

Nina is a successful TV star, but her life changes when she is diagnosed with cancer. Facing a personal crisis, she has to confront her deepest fears.

Lucky Girl

2023

Lucky Girl poster
5.9

Nina is a successful TV star, but her life changes when she is diagnosed with cancer. Facing a personal crisis, she has to confront her deepest fears.

Lucky Girl

2023

Alcoholic poster
9.0

Alina was abandoned by her mother, so now she lives with her aunt, Alina thinks she is spiteful and doesn't love her. The only one who loves Alina is her doll. Accidentally girl found an announcement about recruiting in a children's dance group 'Vinochok'. This is the chance for Alina to break away of this miserable world, full of dirt uselessness and misunderstanding.

Alcoholic

2013

Pigs poster
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A loser cop Tolik kills his wife. Turns out, her body has an incredible power - it can heal. Out of this skill, Tolik and his friend build a good business. But one day a big client approaches them, leading the town to judgment day.

Pigs

2016

No artwork available
NR

Viktor, an architect student from Kyiv, loves Barcelona and the Gaudí work. He wants to get a scholarship in Barcelona, so he’s waiting for a reply from Spanish university. While in Barcelona they decide whether to grant a scholarship to Ukrainian student, he’s going down fast… Will the letter reach him too late?

Gaudi

2012

Our House Is on Fire poster
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Sofia, a promising young LA-based musician, returns to her home-town of Kyiv for the first time in four years. Her brother is getting married, the tables are heaving with food, everyone is there, including her ex-boyfriend. And then, suddenly, the sirens start wailing, and with the hangover comes the fight for survival.

Our House Is on Fire

2025

When the Trees Fall poster
6.0

Five-year-old Vitka and her teenage cousin Larysa both yearn for a life beyond the archaic rules and restricting confines of their small, godforsaken Ukrainian village. Despite her family's staunch objections, Larysa falls wildly in love with Scar, a handsome ex-convict. Hoping to leave their troubled past behind, the two plot their escape. Scar agrees to take on a criminal job in the city. Larysa, meanwhile, fends off an arranged marriage and awaits his return.

When the Trees Fall

2018

When the Trees Fall poster
6.0

Five-year-old Vitka and her teenage cousin Larysa both yearn for a life beyond the archaic rules and restricting confines of their small, godforsaken Ukrainian village. Despite her family's staunch objections, Larysa falls wildly in love with Scar, a handsome ex-convict. Hoping to leave their troubled past behind, the two plot their escape. Scar agrees to take on a criminal job in the city. Larysa, meanwhile, fends off an arranged marriage and awaits his return.

When the Trees Fall

2018

No artwork available
NR

Uncle Tolya’s wife hung herself, and his children went abroad. He lives on his own and feels very lonely. In order to get rid of these feelings Uncle Tolya starts talking to God. He prays every day, and asks God to restore justice by making suffer not only him but the rest of the people as well. If everybody would die, especially sinners in violent torture, Uncle Tolya would gain peace. While Lord is not answering the prayers of his servant, Uncle Tolya decides to play God’s role.

Death Angel

2012

Fallen Leaves poster
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A lonely 40 year old woman meets a man in the wood near the building where she works as a caretaker. They spend the night together. Early in the morning the police arrive at her flat. They just found a dead body in the woods.

Fallen Leaves

2014

Rabies poster
NR

While Tamara, the 40-year-old woman artist, who is going through an existential crisis, tries to discover whether she has got rabies from a dog, that bit her on the street, the other woman comes to her house - the young mistress of her husband. Insult and frustration throw Tamara to fight her inner demons and her own artistic rabies while her husband is lost between the two worlds of powerful women.

Rabies

2016

Rabies poster
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While Tamara, the 40-year-old woman artist, who is going through an existential crisis, tries to discover whether she has got rabies from a dog, that bit her on the street, the other woman comes to her house - the young mistress of her husband. Insult and frustration throw Tamara to fight her inner demons and her own artistic rabies while her husband is lost between the two worlds of powerful women.

Rabies

2016

The Hospital poster
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Five kids are biking harshly down the streets of some Ukrainian city. Suddenly, one of them falls off the bike and injures himself badly. There is chance to save the kid. For doing this his friends have to organize an ambulance. In the world the characters live this simple action turns to be an impossibly hard task.

The Hospital

2015

Homeward poster
7.3

Having lost his oldest son in the war between Russia and Ukraine, Mustafa resolves to bring the boy’s body to the land of his birth: Crimea. Together, he and his younger son set out on a journey that will profoundly mark their relationship.

Homeward

2019

Generation poster
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Sofia left her hometown of Kramatorsk, went through a difficult process of adapting to a new place, and dreams of becoming an actress. Bozhena, fleeing the war, found refuge in Truskavets, where she became the voice of children who, like her, had lost their homes. Marko and Maria live in Kryvyi Rih under constant shelling, but they continue to fight: the boy is learning to accept his history through creativity, and the girl is actively involved in community activities and building her future in Ukraine. Anna from Kharkiv dreams of becoming an architect and rebuilding her hometown. Veronika, who survived the occupation of Chernihiv, is healing through equestrian sports, and Valeria, whose parents took her to Germany, is still looking for an answer — whether to return or build a future abroad.

Generation

2025

No artwork available
NR

Noah is an experienced sapper who earned his nickname for his love for animals. On the front line, he rescues and trains abandoned dogs. However, a sudden attack by superior Russian forces puts him in a difficult moral dilemma – the lives of the dogs he saved and trained in explosive detection or the lives of the military unit, which consists solely of inexperienced recruits.

Noah

Seraphyma poster
NR

It is a story of a girl from a depressive seaside town, that drowned in the sea when she was six years old. But then she suddenly came to her senses and finds a new gift of herb reading, that will lead her to the criminal world, where she discovers herself as a predator. Based on a book by Oles Uljanenko.

Seraphyma

Seraphyma poster
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It is a story of a girl from a depressive seaside town, that drowned in the sea when she was six years old. But then she suddenly came to her senses and finds a new gift of herb reading, that will lead her to the criminal world, where she discovers herself as a predator. Based on a book by Oles Uljanenko.

Seraphyma

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Fall of Bakhmut

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Fall of Bakhmut

Mandrake poster
NR

Olga's husband were missing on the East Ukraine, in military events. In desperate to find him, Olga comes to the witches, who tell her that her husband died. Emotionally destroyed woman does not want to live without her beloved, the witches offered her to drink infusion of mandrake and "all will be forgotten and sorrow and life will pass." Olga is ready for everything only to subsided her emotional pain, but the ritual is going wrong, events of this world and after-world are woven into a tight knot, when it is impossible to separate life from death.

Mandrake

2015