Mwanamke Makueni
A Woman in Makueni | Eine Frau in Makueni

Peter Oluoko
Mwanamke Makueni | A Woman in Makueni | Eine Frau in Makueni by Daria Belova, Valeri Aluskina
DEU 2023, Berlinale Shorts
© Faktura Film, Valeri Aluskina, Daria Belova

Mwanamke Makueni | A Woman in Makueni | Eine Frau in Makueni by Daria Belova, Valeri Aluskina
DEU 2023, Berlinale Shorts
With
- Peter Oluoko
- Mary Wanjuku Wambua
- Beatrice Nafula
- Nancy Syombuak
- Daniel Kitonga
Crew
Directors | Daria Belova, Valeri Aluskina |
Screenplay | Daria Belova |
Cinematography | Sasha Donkan |
Editing | Valeri Aluskina, Daria Belova |
Music | Hildur Guðnadóttir, Skuli Sverrisson, Guðni Franzson |
Sound Design | Valeri Aluskina, Vitali Kavalenka, Zahar Semirkhanov |
Sound | Valeri Aluskina, Alex Njuguna Mwangi, Tien Moses |
Producer | Kirill Krasovski |
Produced by
Faktura Film

Derik Lynch, Matthew Thorne, Daria Belova , Valeri Aluskina, Volker Schlecht, Yazan Rabee
The directors of the Berlinale Shorts programme V at the premiere.
Marungka tjalatjunu · Mwanamke Makueni · The Waiting · Back · Berlinale Shorts · Feb 22, 2023

The 2023 Berlinale Shorts directors
8 · Back · Les chenilles · Eeva · From Fish to Moon · Happy Doom · La herida luminosa · It’s a Date · Jill, Uncredited · A Kind of Testament · Marungka tjalatjunu · As miçangas · Mwanamke Makueni · Nuits blanches · Ours · Qin mi · Terra Mater – Mother Land · The Veiled City · The Waiting · Wo de peng you · Berlinale Shorts · Feb 20, 2023
Daria Belova

Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1982, she studied literature at the city’s university and then worked as an investigative journalist. In 2010, she moved to Germany and took up a film directing degree at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. Her short film Come and Play won the Discovery Award in the 2013 Semaine de la Critique at Cannes. Since March 2022, she has been working as a human rights defender of people suffering from political persecution.
Filmography
2011 Ballet Story; short film 2013 Komm und Spiel (Come and Play); short film · Ya psih? (Am I Crazy?) 2023 Mwanamke Makueni (A Woman in Makueni); short film, co-director: Valeri Aluskina
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2023
Valeri Aluskina

Born in Khabarovsk, Russia in 1992. She embarked on a degree in design but broke off her studies at the age of 18 to move to Saint Petersburg and work on arthouse film productions. She studied directing at the Saint Petersburg School of New Cinema where she later also taught. In 2021, she began to study and practice as a gestalt therapist. Since March 2022, she has been living in Tbilisi in Georgia.
Filmography (short films)
2017 Ya tolko to, chto ya chuvstvuyu (Am I Just What I Feel) 2019 Snova snova snova Margaret (Again Again and Again Margaret) 2023 Mwanamke Makueni (A Woman in Makueni); short film, co-director: Daria Belova
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2023