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Country: Moldova, Republic of
Ksenia Ciuvaseva is a documentary film director from Moldova whose work is devoted to exploring resilience and transformation through film and dance. She is the mentor of the Transformation Film Workshop—a series of workshops for women filmmakers that fosters an international community, Women and I, built on mutual support and peer-to-peer learning. Holding a B.A. in Fine Arts in Film Directing from Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Ksenia's documentaries were screened at international festivals such as Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Palm Springs ShortFest, and DOK.fest München. Beyond festivals, she has also directed films for cultural associations and business organizations. Her debut documentary, Landing, was both a journey into family trauma and a spark for personal transformation, teaching her about the deep connection between personal narrative and the body. She shared this experience in a live performance, I Almost Died Doing My Personal Documentary, which accompanied the film’s premiere at the opening night of the International Documentary Film Festival MOLDOX. Ksenia’s upcoming short documentary, Jamlitz: A Documentary Fairy-Tale (2026), explores the healing of collective German trauma through art and highlights the power of a small village community to reshape its present despite a dark past.
Jamlitz, once a thriving artists’ colony and later scarred by two concentration camps, becomes the...
