
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.
Known for
NRA satirical mockumentary that explores how war turns into a convenient backdrop for self-promotion, with sensitive topics becoming a mere tool for the filmmakers’ careers.
War Film Festival
2026
7.0Experimental 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
NRThe 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
NRFacing the threat of a nuclear war, a young Ukrainian woman is forced to decide between safety and bodily autonomy.
Puerpera
2025
NRIs 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
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
NRA satirical mockumentary that explores how war turns into a convenient backdrop for self-promotion, with sensitive topics becoming a mere tool for the filmmakers’ careers.
War Film Festival
2026
NRFacing the threat of a nuclear war, a young Ukrainian woman is forced to decide between safety and bodily autonomy.
Puerpera
2025
Behind the camera
7.0Experimental 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
NRThe 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
NRThe 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
NRFacing the threat of a nuclear war, a young Ukrainian woman is forced to decide between safety and bodily autonomy.
Puerpera
2025
NRFacing the threat of a nuclear war, a young Ukrainian woman is forced to decide between safety and bodily autonomy.
Puerpera
2025
NRFacing the threat of a nuclear war, a young Ukrainian woman is forced to decide between safety and bodily autonomy.
Puerpera
2025
NRIs 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
NRIs 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
