Lucia Kasová

As an independent European documentary director she focuses on questions of freedom, equality and strong character driven stories from all around the world. Lucia Kasova studied documentary directing at National Film & Television School London (UK), Valencia Polytechnic University Valencia in Spain and completed her master's degree at Academy of performing Arts in Bratislava (SK). Her feature-length debut The Sailor (2021) is a portrait of Paul Johnson who sailed the world all his life, never truly living on a land and in film he reflects on his life and contemplates on his death. Film premiered at HotDocs, Toronto and won the Grand Prize as best feature documentary at Academy Qualifying Flickers' Rhode Island IFF and attended another 7 international festivals. Her short films had wider recognition worldwide, as Concrete times (2018) which traveled to over 20 film festivals across Europe and Asia and won the Best documentary award at B16 in Brno (CZ), Best director award at Sevastopol Doc&Tv Film festival Russia and Best cinematography award at Kinoproba FF in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Film is a visual essay of ever-changing growing city and a river bank in Bratislava. Another short Orchestra from the land of silence (2020) portraits Afghanistan all female orchestra and shows what it means for this young girls to study music in Kabul. Coming- of-age story proved to be very successful with youth audience and educational purposes. The film was touring across schools of Germany and Slovakia and has been to over 20 festivals worldwide. She became well known because of the short film about the former Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico within the documentary series Ex-prime ministers for Radio and Television Slovakia, with which she also collaborates on other projects.