Director
Mariia Ponomarova
35 years · Kyiv, Ukraine · 12 films
Mariia Ponomarova was born and raised in Kyiv, Ukraine. She is a film director, scriptwriter, producer and artistic researcher based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has worked in both documentary and fiction as a director and 1st AD. Mariia participated in the documentarists movement "Babylon'13 - cinema of civil protest" during the revolution in Ukraine. She studied film directing and screenwriting at Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television and graduated with an MA degree in Film Artistic Research program of the Netherlands Film Academy. Her short films were screened during international and national film festivals Go Short ISFF, Sarajevo Film Festival, Vancouver IFF, Molodist IFF, ArtDocFest, Netherlands Film Festival, CineDOC-Tbilisi, VIS Vienna Shorts, Regensburg Short Film Week and many more.
Best known for
Filmography 12
Patronymic
2026 · Director
Nice Ladies
2024 · Writer, Director
Three Windows on South West
2023 · Producer, Editor
Fragile Memory
2022 · Screenplay, Producer
On GuideDoc
Good Boy
2021 · Director, Screenplay
Family Hour
2018 · Director, Writer
Ardea
2017 · Writer, Director
May 9th
2015 · Director, Screenplay
Self-Defense
2014 · Director
I Know You
2014 · Director
The Winter That Changed Us
2014 · Director
Icecream
2012 · Director, Writer