Directing
Masha Novikova
Place of birth
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kyiv, Ukraine]
Known for
Directing
Credits
9 titles
Masha Novikova is visual artist and filmmaker born and raised in a Jewish-Ukrainian family of artists in Kiev. She studied fine arts, under Professor Karin Kneffel and Professor Julian Rosefeldt at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and earned a degree with distinction. Novikova earned an MA in Filmmaking at the London Film School, with her graduation short film Glorious Revolution (2021) premiering at 29th Camerimage Film Festival. She is a Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Foundation grant recipient, a Oskar-Karl-Forster scholarship holder, and was selected for Ildikó Enyedi's directing workshop with her upcoming short film Maria's Lovers.
Known for
4.8In 2014, at the height of the Ukrainian revolution, a mother loses her son who is killed while protesting in Independence Square. Her attempt to bury him as a hero clashes with a corrupt bureaucratic system, testing her view of Ukraine.
Glorious Revolution
2022
Shop stylist asks for assistance in setting up a display in a high end boutique, with moving consequences.
Hedgehog
2020
'Life is like a movie, a movie we do not watch from the beginning' (Umberto Eco)
Embrace
2015
A disabled woman obsessively instructs her housekeeper until the oppression becomes something she can’t live without.
Zwang
2018
In a series of accounts, two men question why the woman they have both dated left them. With no answers, they eventually find common ground rooted in misogyny.
Flocked Mallard Male
2026
Maria is a young immigrant straddling two worlds, the Soviet-Orthodox world of her grandmothers and the Western world of her German lovers. She tries to integrate in a rather strange manner: by doing sexual experiments.
Maria's Lovers
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Behind the camera
4.8In 2014, at the height of the Ukrainian revolution, a mother loses her son who is killed while protesting in Independence Square. Her attempt to bury him as a hero clashes with a corrupt bureaucratic system, testing her view of Ukraine.
Glorious Revolution
2022
4.8In 2014, at the height of the Ukrainian revolution, a mother loses her son who is killed while protesting in Independence Square. Her attempt to bury him as a hero clashes with a corrupt bureaucratic system, testing her view of Ukraine.
Glorious Revolution
2022
4.8In 2014, at the height of the Ukrainian revolution, a mother loses her son who is killed while protesting in Independence Square. Her attempt to bury him as a hero clashes with a corrupt bureaucratic system, testing her view of Ukraine.
Glorious Revolution
2022
Shop stylist asks for assistance in setting up a display in a high end boutique, with moving consequences.
Hedgehog
2020
'Life is like a movie, a movie we do not watch from the beginning' (Umberto Eco)
Embrace
2015
A disabled woman obsessively instructs her housekeeper until the oppression becomes something she can’t live without.
Zwang
2018
In a series of accounts, two men question why the woman they have both dated left them. With no answers, they eventually find common ground rooted in misogyny.
Flocked Mallard Male
2026
In a series of accounts, two men question why the woman they have both dated left them. With no answers, they eventually find common ground rooted in misogyny.
Flocked Mallard Male
2026
Maria is a young immigrant straddling two worlds, the Soviet-Orthodox world of her grandmothers and the Western world of her German lovers. She tries to integrate in a rather strange manner: by doing sexual experiments.
Maria's Lovers
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