For several years, she led the Culture desk at the Ukrainian online outlet LB.ua. She is a member of the preparatory committee for the European Press Prize and a co-curator of the Kyiv Critics' Week film festival. She is also the co-editor of the anthology ‘We Who Have Changed’ (ist publishing, 2024).
German film director, screenwriter. Her award-winning films premiered at international film festivals, in Berlin, Toronto, Locarno and Busan. She was a jury member a.o. at the Berlinale Shorts. Stever’s upcoming film, I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming, realized with her wife, Ukrainian scriptwriter and novelist Anna Melikova, was filmed 2024-2025 in Ukraine.
Based between London and Berlin, Jad Salfiti is a British-Palestinian journalist covering culture and politics. He has written for The Guardian, The Nation, and Al Jazeera English. His video work includes GERMANY’S PALESTINE PROBLEM, which won Best Use of Video at the 2023 WAN-IFRA Digital Media Awards Middle East. He previously co-hosted ARTE’s Europe Weekly and was a Queer Palm juror at Cannes in 2024.
Head of the Ukrainian Film Critics Union, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Film Studies, member of FIPRESCI, film historian.
Film reviewer of Ukrinform and Yabl, programme director of the Euregion Film Forum and the SHIFT Film Festival. Member of FIPRESCI (the International Federation of Film Critics), the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, and the Ukrainian Film Academy. Board member of the Ukrainian Film Critics Union and the committee of the National Film Critics Award “Kinokolo”. Expert for the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
Head of the Department of Audiovisual Art and Production of the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Karyi University of Theatre, Cinema and Television, PhD Art History. In 1989-1993 and 1998-2008, she worked in the directorate of the Kyiv International Film Festival “Molodist”, and for a decade she headed the festival's programme department.
