Nataliia Serebriakova
Ukranian born and Berlin-based film critic who fell in love with Andrzej Zulawski
Nataliia Serebriakova is Berlin-based Ukrainian film critic. Her cinematic taste was formed under the influence of French cinema, which was shown on the Ukrainian channel UT-1 in the daytime, as well as the TV series Twin Peaks by David Lynch. After graduating as a historian and practical psychologist, she worked in the regional Ukrainian press. While on maternity leave, Natalііa began to read a lot of reviews from world film critics, among whom her favourites were Roger Ebert and Richard Brody.
The turning point was watching Andrzej Zulawski’s My Nights Are More Beautiful than Your Days (1989), which inspired her to fully devote herself to film criticism. Zulawski, Terrence Malick and Michelangelo Antonioni are Nataliia’s favourite directors. Nataliia writes for the Ukrainian outlets Korydor, DTF-magazine, Skvot, Vogue Ukraine, annually attends three major and a dozen minor world film festivals, and also writes for the German magazine Cargo. She was a special Ukrainian correspondent for the web-site Cineuropa. She is a member of Fipresci and a Golden Globe voter. To boot, she is a programmer for the Lithuanian film festival Scanorama.
Other posts by Nataliia Serebriakova
Our dirty questions to Ramon Zürcher
Nataliia Serebriakova interviews the director of Locarno entry The Sparrow in the Chimney; they talk about making chamber pieces, metamorphoses, Christian Petzold, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, killing cats inside the washing machine, and much more!
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Dad’s Lullaby
Traumatised Ukrainian veteran returns home and attempts to reconnect with his family, after leaving part of his soul on the battlefield - documentary premieres at the Sarajevo Film Festival
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Our dirty questions to Juri Rechinsky
Nataliia Serebriakova interviews the director of brutally honest and unforgivingly graphic war doc Dear Beautiful Beloved; they discuss vulnerable Ukrainian evacuees, lies on television, filming near shelling, and why Juri will never watch his own film again
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Dear Beautiful Beloved
Harrowing documentary exposes the brutality of the Ukraine war in graphic detail, allowing no room for indifference - from Locarno, IDFA and the Black Nights
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Our dirty questions to Pavlo Ostrikov
Nataliia Serebriakova interviews the Ukrainian director of U Are The Universe, a chamber play about a lonely astronaut and his mean computer; they talk about the challenges of making cinema in his country (both before and after the invasion), retrofuturism, Soviet vibes, Christopher Nolan, Stephen Hawking, and much more!
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U are the Universe
A solitary Ukrainian astronaut desperately seeks to reach the only other surviving human, in this tasteful blend of survival drama and dark comedy - from the 4th Red Sea International Film Festival
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Songs of a Slow Burning Earth
Ukrainian filmmaker reflects on the normalisation of war, in a documentary dotted with haunting snippets of everyday life - from the 81st Venice International Film Festival
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Our dirty questions to Olha Zhurba
Ukrainian journalist Nataliia Serebriakova interviews her fellow countrywoman, just as she premieres her jarring "mosaic" of a war documentary at the Biennale
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Animal
Sofia Exarchou's filthy genius sophomore feature exposes the animalistic routine of resort animateurs in Greece - from the 32nd edition of Raindance
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About Dry Grasses (Kuru Otlar Üstüne)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's latest cinematic marathon puts viewers right into the heart of Anatolian winter, facing a Chekhovian existential crisis - on VoD on Monday, October 7th
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Our dirty questions to Jonas Trueba
Ukrainian movie critic Nataliia Serebriakova interviews the Spanish director behind the happy-go-divorce drama The Other Way Around, which premiered in Cannes last month; they talk about his career, the good side of separations, a lesson that he learnt from his filmmaking father, making low-budget films, and more!
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The Other Way Around (Volvereis)
A Spanish couple decides to throw a divorce celebration party, and the preparations are well underway... from the Directors' Fortnight section of the Festival de Cannes
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