Vitaly Mansky
Directing
Vitaly Vsevolodovich Mansky (Russian: ΠΠΈΡΠ°ΜΠ»ΠΈΠΉ ΠΡΠ΅ΜΠ²ΠΎΠ»ΠΎΠ΄ΠΎΠ²ΠΈΡ ΠΠ°ΜΠ½ΡΠΊΠΈΠΉ, Ukrainian: ΠΡΡΠ°Π»ΡΠΉ ΠΡΠ΅Π²ΠΎΠ»ΠΎΠ΄ΠΎΠ²ΠΈΡ ΠΠ°Π½ΡΡΠΊΠΈΠΉ; born 2 December 1963 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a film and documentary maker of Jewish Ukrainian origin. His films have been screened at film festivals worldwide and he has received over 100 international awards. In 2007, he founded the International Festival of Creative Documentary Films Artdocfest. In 2014, he emigrated to Latvia. He is still being persecuted by Russian authorities for expressing his stance on civil rights. Mansky is the president of the IDFF Artdocfest/Riga and a member of the American Film Academy (Oscars).
Behind the camera
2025Time to the Target
Director & Writer
2024Iron
Director & Writer
2023Eastern Front
Director & Writer
2021Gorbachev. Heaven
Director & Writer
2018Putin's Witnesses
Director & Writer
2016Close Relations
Director & Writer
2015Under the Sun
Director & Writer
2014Book
Director
2013Pipeline
Director & Screenplay
2011Motherland or Death
Director
2011Iconoscope
Director
2009Nikolina Gora. Epilogue
Director
2008Virginity
Director
2008Sunrise/Sunset. Dalai Lama XIV
Director
2006Tender's Heat: Wild Wild Beach
Screenplay
2004Space. Way Home
Director
2003Anatomy of t.A.T.u.
Director
2003Valentina Leontieva
Director
2001Vertov Windows
Director & Writer
2001Gorbachev. After Empire
Director
2000Unknown Putin
Screenplay
1999Private Chronicles: Monologue
Director
1995Bliss
Director
1992Lenin's Body
Director & Writer