Andrei Kutsila

Andrei Kutsila is a filmmaker with over ten documentaries to his credit.

In 2007, he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Belarusian State University with a degree in journalism, and two years later, he graduated from the the Belarusian Academy of Arts. He fulfills himself as a freelancer and works on television projects. In 2018, he won the Amsterdam IDFA Award in the Best Medium-Length Documentary Film category for ’Summa’. In 2019, he was awarded the Silver Hobby Horse for the best documentary film in the National Competition of the Krakow Film Festival. His latest film, ‘When Flowers Are Not Silent’, which is focused on women and his sister, imprisoned during the protests in Belarus, won the Best Feature Documentary Award at the Warsaw FF.

In 2021, Andrei left Belarus; since then, he lives and works in Poland.