Yana Osman

Filmmaker, audiovisual artist.

Born in Ukraine into a multiethnic family: mother was from Ukraine, father - from Afghanistan. Spent her childhood between Afghanistan, Russia, Ukraine, and after remained to live in Russia.

Participated in international film labs, markets and pitches: DOK Co-Pro Market of DOK Leipzig (Germany), Rendez-vous Industry of Festival de Cannes (France), East West Talent Lab of GoEast (Germany); B2B Doc (Sweden), IDFF Artdocfest (Latvia), Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market (France), GES-2-ColLab (Russia-Italy),  Chimeres (France)  etc.

Winner of a grant for mentoring support from the Documentary Association of Europe(2021).

The last short film - Swallowtails (2022) - was selected to the Official Competitions of DOK Leipzig 2022, Hong Kong International Film Festival 2023, Movies That Matter 2023, Tampere Film Festival 2023, where was nominated for European Film Award, and took part in Short Film Corner of the Festival de Cannes and Clermont-Ferrand Short film Market. Another short film - Triptych (2022) - got Grand-prix of the International Film Festival «Spirit of Fire».

Author of documentary podcasts and documentary musical novels.

• 2022 — Triptych |documentary|8 min
• 2022 — Swallowtails|documentary|17 min
• 2023 — Twin Fences|documentary |97 min