Yulia Vishnevets

Russia

Yulia Vishnevets

director

Berlin-based journalist and documentary filmmaker, she has directed over 20 non-fiction films. Former reporter for Deutsche Welle, she has worked since 2015 with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Current Time TV in Russia. Her feature Hey! Teachers! screened at IDFA and Krakow. In 2022, she was detained while filming an anti-war protest in Dagestan, jailed for five days, and forced to leave Russia.