Maryna Er Gorbach (born 1981,

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

) is a Ukrainian filmmaker who writes, directs, produces, and edits films, often with her husband, Turkish filmmaker Mehmet Bahadir Er. She won the directing award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the

2022 Sundance Film Festival The 2022 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 20 to 30, 2022. Due to COVID-19 pandemic protocol it was to have been a hybrid festival, but on January 5, 2022 it was announced that the in-person components would be scrapped in favor o ...

for her film ''Klondike''. She was among a group of Ukrainian filmmakers who called for international aid for Ukraine in the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...

. Maryna Er Gorbach has been a member of the European Film Academy since 2017.
Klondike.
' In: berlinale.de. Retrieved 3 February 2022. Like a number of other Ukrainian artists, Er Gorbach wrote an open letter in March 2022 after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, calling for a halt to the war.
Ukrainian director Maryna Er Gorbach joins her colleagues in requesting the end of the Russian invasion.
' In: cineuropa.org, 9 March 2022.

Filmography

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Living people Ukrainian women film directors Ukrainian screenwriters Sundance Film Festival award winners Ukrainian film directors 1981 births {{Ukraine-stub