Director
Darya Zhuk
Born 1980 · Minsk, Belarus
Belarus-born award-winning film director Darya Zhuk has been obsessing over filmmaking long enough to see her short films selected at SXSW, Tarkovsky, Oaxaca, Atlanta, Palm Springs, Koroche, Santa Fe Independent film festivals, to name a few. She is a graduate of Columbia University MFA program in Directing. Darya lives and creates between Minsk and Brooklyn. In 2015, she won the best female writer/director award from New York Women in Film and Television for her short film The Real American. Her feature debut Crystal Swan screened in the East of the West Competition at Karlovy Vary IFF 2018 and won the Grand Prix at the Odesa International Film Festival.
Directed
Crystal Swan
Director · 2018
Russian Affairs
Director · 2019
The Premise
Director · 2021
The Real American
Director · 2015
What Doesn't Kill You
Director · 2015
Eat the Tourists
Director · 2014
The Air Inside Her
Director · 2011
Half-Life
Director · 2011
Wax
Director · 2013
Through the Eyes of Others
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Our Breasts Are Our Weapons: The History of the Femen Movement
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