Sasha Kulak is a director born in Vitebsk, Belarus. Her films have taken her to communities and stories of isolation across the world, whether among the Mexican Mennonites (Salamanca, 2015, 41’), an abandoned mining town in the USA (Quicksilver Chronicles, 2019, 75’), or the Belarusian protests of 2020 (Mara, 2022, 61’). Her latest feature film A Hawk as Big as a Horse (77’), follows a character who seeks refuge in ornithology and Twin Peaks while crafting their own version of the world, was made in collaboration with Arte La Lucarne, won a special mention at Dok Leipzig in 2022.