Yelyzaveta Sherstnova

Directing

Yelyzaveta Sherstnova

Place of birth

Zaporizhia, Ukraine

Known for

Directing

Credits

10 titles

Yelyzaveta Sherstnova is a fourth-year-student at the Department for TV directors. In 2021, she took part in the Kinobereh (“FilmShore”) residency in the Kherson region, where she filmed the documentary CHILDHOOD. In 2022, she created a video essay for The Street I Need project. In 2023, she filmed an experimental work about the designer Mykhailo Koptev WITH LOVE, KOPTEV. Besides, she made WEIGHTLESSNESS at the special film residence of the WizzArt festival in Lviv. Currently, she is working on a graduation feature.

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Film credits

Behind the camera

With Love, Koptev poster
7.0

Experimental short film shows one of the performances of the Orchid Theater under the direction of Mykhailo Koptev, a marginal trash designer from Luhansk. The maestro affirms another status of the artist: there is no client, no mentor, only the art for its sake.

With Love, Koptev

2024

Weightlessness poster
NR

The liberation of her hometown of Kherson prompts Anya to return home as soon as possible, but her new boyfriend Felix tries to keep her with him in Berlin.

Weightlessness

2023

Weightlessness poster
NR

The liberation of her hometown of Kherson prompts Anya to return home as soon as possible, but her new boyfriend Felix tries to keep her with him in Berlin.

Weightlessness

2023

Puerpera poster
NR

Facing the threat of a nuclear war, a young Ukrainian woman is forced to decide between safety and bodily autonomy.

Puerpera

2025

Puerpera poster
NR

Facing the threat of a nuclear war, a young Ukrainian woman is forced to decide between safety and bodily autonomy.

Puerpera

2025

Puerpera poster
NR

Facing the threat of a nuclear war, a young Ukrainian woman is forced to decide between safety and bodily autonomy.

Puerpera

2025

A Pike is No Fish poster
NR

Is there a future without knowledge of history, culture and tradition? Dmytro, a potter and soloist of the ethno-group "Shchuka Ryba" (what literally means "pike fish"), is looking for an answer to this question, trying to introduce respect and love for tradition into the life of modern Kyiv. But the heart of the capital, Khreshchatyk, is full of oblivion and pain.

A Pike is No Fish

2025

A Pike is No Fish poster
NR

Is there a future without knowledge of history, culture and tradition? Dmytro, a potter and soloist of the ethno-group "Shchuka Ryba" (what literally means "pike fish"), is looking for an answer to this question, trying to introduce respect and love for tradition into the life of modern Kyiv. But the heart of the capital, Khreshchatyk, is full of oblivion and pain.

A Pike is No Fish

2025