Mariia Ponomarova
Directing
- Born
- May 9, 1991 (age 35) · Kyiv, Ukraine
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.
Known for
Fragile Memory
May 29, 2022
Nice Ladies
June 13, 2024
The Diaper Cake
September 24, 2021
The Winter That Changed Us
October 30, 2014
May 9th
December 9, 2015
Good Boy
August 5, 2021
Self-Defense
November 13, 2014
I Know You
October 31, 2014
Three Windows on South West
June 17, 2023
Family Hour
July 18, 2018
Ardea
February 16, 2017
Icecream
January 1, 2012
Behind the camera13
- 2026Patronymic Director
- 2024Nice Ladies Director, Writer
- 2023Three Windows on South West Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematography
- 2022Fragile Memory Screenplay, Producer, Creative Producer
- 2021The Diaper Cake Creative Producer
- 2021Good Boy Director, Screenplay
- 2018Family Hour Director, Writer
- 2017Ardea Director, Writer, Editor
- 2015May 9th Director, Screenplay
- 2014Self-Defense