Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi

Biography

Myroslav Mykhailovych Slaboshpytskyi, born 17 October 1974, is a Ukrainian film director. Slaboshpytskyi was born to Ukrainian writer and literary critic Mykhailo Slaboshpytskyi. Until 1982 he lived in Lviv. Slaboshpytskyi graduated from National University of Theater, Film, and TV in Kyiv with a focus in film and television directing. He has worked as a reporter and written scripts for film and television. In the early 1990s. he worked at the Dovzhenko Film Studios. Since 2000 he has been a Member of the Ukrainian Association of Cinematographers. He was vice-president of the Association of Young Filmmakers of Ukraine. In 2002, due to a conflict with the head of the State Cinematography Service Anna Chmil, he went to Russia to St. Petersburg, where he began working as a screenwriter and second director on a number of projects. He worked at the Lenfilm film studio in St. Petersburg, in particular on the series “Detachment” with Igor Lifanov and others. In 2014, Slaboshpytskyi broke on the scene with his film The Tribe, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with no subtitles. It won the Nespresso Grand Prize, as well as the F…

Directed

1. The Tribe (2014) — Director
2. Deafness (2010) — Director
3. Nuclear Waste (2012) — Director
4. Animals in War (2025) — Director
5. Assholes. Arabesques (2009) — Director
6. The Incident (2006) — Director
7. Luxembourg — Director
8. Ukraine, Goodbye! (2011) — Director
9. Diagnosis (2009) — Director
10. Occupation — Director
11. The Tiger — Director
12. Deus Ex Machina — Director
13. Radioactive — Director

Also appeared in

1. My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan (2016) — Dmitriy Ilyich Ulyanov
2. Uljanenko Uncensored (2021) — self