Unexpressed

Mariia Felenko is a filmmaker from Ukraine. She was born in 1997 in the small village Korolivka in the Dnipro region of Ukraine. Mariia received her first education as a puppet theatre actress and later continued her film directing studies at the Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema, and Television named after I.K. Karpenko-Kary.
During her studies, she directed several films that were presented at film festivals, such as the Palm Springs International ShortFest, the Linz International Film Festival (in 2024 with the film Mother), and EnergaCamerimage Film Festival (with the film Butterfly Dance in 2021, in the Film and Art School Études Panorama section).
From 2022 to 2025, Mariia was a student in a special mobility program for Ukrainian students at FAMU in Prague, Czech Republic, where she shot the film Unexpressed under the mentorship of Jasmina Blažević.
In 2024, with the project Unexpressed, Mariia was selected for the Talent Demo program during EnergaCamerimage 2024.
Additionally, she participated in Warsaw Next (during the Warsaw International Film Festival 2023) and Sommerfilmakademie (Görlitz, 2023).