Director
Maryna Er Gorbach is Ukrainian director and screenwriter. She has received multiple accolades, including the Ecumenical Jury Prize in the Panorama section at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival for her film Klondike, which was also selected as Ukraine’s official submission for the Academy Awards 2023 in the Best International Feature Film category. Maryna studied at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University and subsequently at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Poland. She has been a member of the European Film Academy since 2017. She made the films Black Dogs Barking, Love Me and Omar and Us together with her husband Mehmet Bahadir Er. Klondike is the first film she has written and directed alone. In 2026, her short film Rotation premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film was created within The Displacement Film Fund, an initiative by two-time Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett, bringing together five filmmakers from around the world, including Mo Harawe, Mohammad Rasoulof, Hasan Kattan, Shahrbanoo Sadat, and Maryna Er Gorbach.
