Alina Panasenko

Writer-director

Ukraine

Alina Panasenko is a director and visual artist, b.2000 (Severodonetsk, Ukraine) and based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Member of Ukrainian Film Academy, member of MYPH collective. Studied in KNUTCT (bachelor screenwriter), Serhiy Melnychenko MYPH School (conceptual and art photography), Pinchuk Art Centre curatorial course.
She directed the s/f 20-11-7.MP4 (winner IFF Molodist 2021), and the s/f TEATRALNA STATION (winner Tel Aviv SFF best editing award 2023). Was working as a script breakdown writer for the feature film LA PALISIADA dir. Philip Sotnychenko (FIPRESCI, Sarajevo, Vilnius and Kyiv Critics Week winner, EFA nominated).
Continuing the interest in cinema and culture, she curates the “Practice. Cinema as/and politics” publishing project.

Project

Gait

[working title]

“Gait” is a feature film in the erotical drama genre at the early stage of development.
Film tells the story about the heroine Slava, who lost a part of memory due to the aggressive medical treatment. Girl takes a month off and decides to follow in her own steps back to reveal herself.
In this debut feature film I would like to combine the documentary and fiction to create the hybrid genre as well as expande the erotical drama genre, because it still has a lot of potential to create a twist and challenge the image of what we understand as erotic.