Ekaterina Selenkina is a filmmaker, curator, and activist born in St. Petersburg in 1992 and currently based in Berlin. Her debut feature Detours (2021) received awards at the Venice International Film Festival, Camden IFF, FILMADRID, and New Holland Island IFF, as well as the Bright Future Award from the Hubert Bals Fund and the Eurimages Lab Project Award at the Les Arcs Film Festival.

Her work has been shown at Venice International Film Critics’ Week, Viennale, FICUNAM, Jeonju IFF, Thessaloniki IFF, IndieLisboa, the Barbican Centre, Camerimage, Berlin Critics’ Week, REDCAT, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Image Forum, Beldocs, Marienbad IFF, among others.

In 2022, following a performance in the Moscow metro that drew attention to the killing of Ukrainian children by the Russian army, Selenkina fled Russia due to persecution. That same year, together with a group of cultural workers and activists, she co-founded Beda, an independent online research journal examining and challenging the Russian colonial project, where she worked as an editor. She holds an MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts.