Darya Zhuk

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The Long Breakup TrailerCrystal Swan TrailerThe Real American Trailer

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.

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Total trailers found: 9

A Film about Anna Akhmatova Trailer (2008)

27 November 2008

A Film about Anna Akhmatova is not a biopic. Rather, it is a live process of recreating a story akin to ancient tragedy.

Crystal Swan Trailer (2018)

29 August 2018

Minsk, Belarus, 1996. Velya, an aspiring DJ, wants to move to Chicago to make her dreams come true, but bureaucracy, a phone line and the human condition will put obstacles in her way that will be difficult to avoid.

The Real American Trailer (2015)

01 May 2015

Russian exchange student Alya struggles to fit into what it means to be an American teenage girl in 1994 when she realizes her host father has a crush on her.

What Doesn't Kill You Trailer (2015)

14 March 2015

After a rare diagnosis, Lily's attempts to flee from war torn Israel are thwarted when the airport shuts down and her zany cousin forces her to party.

Eat the Tourists Trailer (2014)

18 October 2014

When unsuspecting tourist hooks up with a local girl, he finds himself trapped in a love triangle.

The Long Breakup Trailer (2020)

24 October 2020

Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine, chronicles Ukraine's history: its strong ties to Russia for centuries; how it broke away from the USSR and began to walk alone; the Orange Revolution, the Maidan Revolution, the Crimea annexation, the Donbass War; all through the eyes of her family and friends settled in Kharkiv, a large Ukrainian city located just eighteen miles from the Russian border.

The Air Inside Her Trailer (2011)

18 May 2011

When six year-old Katya explores the experience of death, she discovers life like she has never seen before.

Wax Trailer (2013)

10 April 2013

In an attempt to break away from her religious upbringing, a young Jewish woman sets up an Internet date.

Half-Life Trailer (2011)

05 May 2011

Searching for an escape from an impoverished city life, a retired couple moves to an abandoned country house in the radioactive zone of Chernobyl.