Elwira Niewiera
Elwira Niewiera is a director and screenwriter born in Racibórz, Poland, in 1976. She studied drama at the Gardzienice Theatre Academy, then moved to Berlin in 2003, where she worked as a researcher on several documentary projects. Bulgarian Stories (2007), co-directed with Kornel Miglus, was her first feature-length documentary. From 2008 to 2015, she was managing director of the German-Polish cultural foundation Nowa Ameryka. Her second feature documentary, Domino Effekt (2014), co-directed with Piotr Rosołowski, tells the story of a Russian woman who follows the love of her life to Abkhazia, where the people are hostile and ostracize her. Three years later, Niewiera and Rosołowski presented their second documentary film, The Prince and the Dybbuk (2017), which portrays the celebrated Polish Jewish filmmaker Michał Waszyński. At the Venice Film Festival, the film won the Venice Classics award for best documentary film. The Hamlet Syndrome (2022) is her most recent feature documentary. It won the Grand Prix of the International Critics' Week at Locarno in 2022.
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The Hamlet Syndrome
The film depicts the young Ukrainian generation marked by war and political fractures since 2014. The starting point of the film is the preparation of a play based on the motifs of Shakespeare's _Hamlet_. A portrait of a generation confronted with the trauma of war and a painful past, similar to its present and future after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The Hamlet Syndrome
The film depicts the young Ukrainian generation marked by war and political fractures since 2014. The starting point of the film is the preparation of a play based on the motifs of Shakespeare's _Hamlet_. A portrait of a generation confronted with the trauma of war and a painful past, similar to its present and future after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
