Ilya Khrzhanovsky

Ilya Andreyevich Khrzhanovsky (Russian: Илья́ Андре́евич Хржано́вский; born 11 August 1975) is a Russian-born filmmaker, producer and art director. His debut feature 4 (2004) won the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

He is best known for the DAU project, a multidisciplinary undertaking at the intersection of cinema, art and anthropology that has yielded 14 feature films, three TV series and large-scale immersive installations; DAU premiered in 2019 in Paris at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Théâtre de la Ville and Centre Pompidou, and its films were selected for the Berlinale and Venice, alongside nominations for the European Film Awards.

From 2020 to 2023 he served as Artistic Director of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv.