Director
Vitaly Mansky
62 years · Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine] · 30 films
Vitaly Vsevolodovich Mansky (Russian: Вита́лий Все́володович Ма́нский, Ukrainian: Віталій Всеволодович Манський; born 2 December 1963 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a film and documentary maker of Jewish Ukrainian origin. His films have been screened at film festivals worldwide and he has received over 100 international awards. In 2007, he founded the International Festival of Creative Documentary Films Artdocfest. In 2014, he emigrated to Latvia. He is still being persecuted by Russian authorities for expressing his stance on civil rights. Mansky is the president of the IDFF Artdocfest/Riga and a member of the American Film Academy (Oscars).
Best known for
Filmography 30
Time to the Target
2026 · Director, Writer
Iron
2024 · Director, Writer
Eastern Front
2023 · Director, Writer
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Gorbachev. Heaven
2021 · Writer, Director
Putin's Witnesses
2018 · Self - Narrator (voice) / (archive footage), Director
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The Choice
2016 · Producer
Close Relations
2016 · Director, Writer
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Under the Sun
2015 · Writer, Director
Beyond The Fear
2014 · Producer
Book
2014 · Director
Pipeline
2013 · Director, Producer
Motherland or Death
2011 · Director
Iconoscope
2011 · Director
Miner's Day
2010 · Producer
Nikolina Gora. Epilogue
2009 · Director
Sunrise/Sunset. Dalai Lama XIV
2008 · Director
Virginity
2008 · Director
Tender's Heat: Wild Wild Beach
2006 · Producer, Screenplay
Bashlachev. The Flight of Death
2005 · Producer
Space. Way Home
2004 · Director
Anatomy of t.A.T.u.
2003 · Cinematography, Director
Clean Thursday
2003 · Producer
Valentina Leontieva
2003 · Director
Vertov Windows
2001 · Actor, Writer