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Pavel Mozhar

Born in Minsk, he grew up in and around Berlin from the age of ten. He studied directing at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, focusing on documentary forms. His short film Handbook about the protests in Belarus in August 2020 won the award for Best Short Documentary at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 2021 and at the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg in 2022. Ungewollte Verwandtschaft and Mit einem freundlichen Gruss were screened in the Berlinale Shorts program in 2024 and 2026, respectively, at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Filmographie

MIT EINEM FREUNDLICHEN GRUSS  (2026, 14 min)

UNGEWOLLTE VERWANDTSCHAFT (2024, 30 min)

HANDBUCH (2021, 26 min)

VIZITATOR (2019, 45 min)

: Pavel Mozhar

Filme bei Interfilm

Ungewollte Verwandtschaft

Ungewollte Verwandtschaft

Unwanted Kinship

Pavel Mozhar

Germany // 2024 // 30:00 min

Documentary

Using the streets of his Berlin neighborhood as a backdrop, a filmmaker born in Belarus investigates the systematic nature of Russian and Belarusian war crimes in Ukraine and explores his own [...]

MIT EINEM FREUNDLICHEN GRUSS

MIT EINEM FREUNDLICHEN GRUSS

WITH A KIND REGARD

Pavel Mozhar

Germany // 2026 // 14:16 min

Documentary

An abandoned former GDR production facility. Dust-covered job applications from 2004 to 2008 are piled up in the basement of an administrative building. Alongside the standard phrases of a [...]