
Writing
Maryna Stepanska
Born
1982-01-01 (44)
Place of birth
Kiev, Ukraine
Known for
Writing
Credits
15 titles
Maryna Stepanska (Kyiv, Ukraine, 1982) is a Ukrainian film director and screenwriter. She graduated from Karpenko-Kary National University of Film, Theatre, and Television (Film Department, specialty: director) in 2004. Further, Stepanska worked at the experimental theatre "School," where she studied the methodology of working with non-actors. She completed a 6-month ARCHIDOC program for documentary filmmakers at the French film and television school La Femis. Her feature debut, "Falling," received several awards at international film festivals and three awards of the National "Golden Dzyga" in 2017-18. She is a co-writer of a few feature films; the last one is "Forever-Forever," directed b…
Known for
6.4A raw portrait of a group of rebellious youth thrust into adulthood too soon, navigating the wreckage of the Soviet regime set in the late 1990s in Kyiv.
Forever-Forever
2024
Kai is going through a midlife crisis: he no longer loves his wife, has lost interest in his business and dreams of becoming a writer, while failing to notice that his youngest son is seriously ill. In 2014, as the Russian-Ukrainian war breaks out, Kai becomes a volunteer in eastern Ukraine.
Kai
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NRAnimated short film about the book by the French author Laurent Gaudé "Nous, l'Europe. Banquet des Peuples" (Wir Europa. Fest der Völker) what was awarded the European Book Prize in 2019. In a long poem and a language in free verse, between poem and narrative, Gaudé reviews the development of the European idea since the mid-19th century - and defends it with virtuosity. The press described the work as "an ode to the past 150 years of European history".
Wir, Europa
2021
NRRussian war changed the lives of Ukrainian filmmakers entirely. Some are at the frontline, some volunteering or trying to take care of their kids, but everybody is reflecting. What is the picture the war reveals?
It’s Not A Full Picture
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7.6A story about the post-revolutionary generation of young Ukrainian people looking for their place in a modern Ukraine. Two bewildered people meet at a crucial moment in their existence and experience a few days of happiness together.
Falling
2017
NRDocufiction story of young people from nowhere, a story about anatomy of a break-up and finding yourself.
Holidays
2013
Behind the camera
6.4A raw portrait of a group of rebellious youth thrust into adulthood too soon, navigating the wreckage of the Soviet regime set in the late 1990s in Kyiv.
Forever-Forever
2024
Kai is going through a midlife crisis: he no longer loves his wife, has lost interest in his business and dreams of becoming a writer, while failing to notice that his youngest son is seriously ill. In 2014, as the Russian-Ukrainian war breaks out, Kai becomes a volunteer in eastern Ukraine.
Kai
—
NRAnimated short film about the book by the French author Laurent Gaudé "Nous, l'Europe. Banquet des Peuples" (Wir Europa. Fest der Völker) what was awarded the European Book Prize in 2019. In a long poem and a language in free verse, between poem and narrative, Gaudé reviews the development of the European idea since the mid-19th century - and defends it with virtuosity. The press described the work as "an ode to the past 150 years of European history".
Wir, Europa
2021
NRRussian war changed the lives of Ukrainian filmmakers entirely. Some are at the frontline, some volunteering or trying to take care of their kids, but everybody is reflecting. What is the picture the war reveals?
It’s Not A Full Picture
—
7.6A story about the post-revolutionary generation of young Ukrainian people looking for their place in a modern Ukraine. Two bewildered people meet at a crucial moment in their existence and experience a few days of happiness together.
Falling
2017
7.6A story about the post-revolutionary generation of young Ukrainian people looking for their place in a modern Ukraine. Two bewildered people meet at a crucial moment in their existence and experience a few days of happiness together.
Falling
2017
NRDocufiction story of young people from nowhere, a story about anatomy of a break-up and finding yourself.
Holidays
2013
NRDocufiction story of young people from nowhere, a story about anatomy of a break-up and finding yourself.
Holidays
2013
NRDocufiction story of young people from nowhere, a story about anatomy of a break-up and finding yourself.
Holidays
2013
7.0A visual comedy about overcoming cliches in cinema and in life. A desaturated girl tries to get her color back, until she meets someone who changes her perception of herself and the world around her.
Desaturated
2019
7.0A visual comedy about overcoming cliches in cinema and in life. A desaturated girl tries to get her color back, until she meets someone who changes her perception of herself and the world around her.
Desaturated
2019
NRThe 37-year-old man is working for a Corporation, which is engaged in illegal occupation of rural land. Leaving for another "object", he discovers a huge unfinished cathedral at the infinite field. He needs to decide what to do with the cathedral, as well as to subdue a farmer who rightfully owns the land.
Man's Work
2015
NRThe 37-year-old man is working for a Corporation, which is engaged in illegal occupation of rural land. Leaving for another "object", he discovers a huge unfinished cathedral at the infinite field. He needs to decide what to do with the cathedral, as well as to subdue a farmer who rightfully owns the land.
Man's Work
2015
NRThe 37-year-old man is working for a Corporation, which is engaged in illegal occupation of rural land. Leaving for another "object", he discovers a huge unfinished cathedral at the infinite field. He needs to decide what to do with the cathedral, as well as to subdue a farmer who rightfully owns the land.
Man's Work
2015
NRA man and a woman meet during a calm autumn day in the middle of Crimean field. By the end of their journey we realize that their meeting was destined.
Violoncello
2014
