Participant Profile

Kseniia Opria

Ukraine
Zaporizhzhia

Kseniia Opria, a Razom ArtsLink Fellow, is an editor, curator, and filmmaker specializing in documentary and experimental cinema. She explores communities, institutions, and the intersection of civilian and military realities during wartime. Based in Zaporizhzhia, Kseniia collaborates with independent media to document the daily lives of local residents. She is currently completing her debut short documentary, The Right to Expression.

Since 2025, Kseniia has been co-curating PKHE! – Experimental Film Workshop, a non-commercial collective that operates as a curatorial and research platform for artistic experimentation with moving images. She leads the editorial field of NGO Docudays. This institution focuses on human rights documentary cinema and includes several initiatives such as the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA, a traveling festival across regions of Ukraine, the Ukrainian War Archive, and a network of film clubs.

Kseniia is also the editor of the 7th Edition of the Electronic Catalogue of Ukrainian Documentary Films (2023–2025), a project presenting Ukrainian documentary cinema to global audiences. Published after the full-scale Russian invasion, the edition supports Ukrainian cultural diplomacy and professional exchange.

Kseniia studied sociology at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Kseniia Opria’s Razom ArtsLink Fellowship is supported by Razom for Ukraine.

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