About
Alina Manolache is a filmmaker, artist, and lecturer, born in Romania, whose practice explores the space between documentary and experimental cinema.
Alina began making documentaries after graduating from the Bucharest Academy of Fine Arts in 2013, when she was awarded an artist-in-residence grant for her first film, Your Visit Starts Here. It was shot at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and was followed by a number of short and feature-length works that premiered at major festivals around the world. Among them is End of Summer (2016), which debuted at Switzerland’s Visions du Réel, an exploration of youth and masculinity set in rural Romania. Her first feature, Lost Kids on the Beach (2020), a collective portrait of the first generation to grow up in post-communist Romania – her own generation – premiered in Amsterdam, at IDFA. For this film she was featured as one of the top female filmmakers of IDFA by Filmmaker Magazine.
Alina collaborated as a commissioned director with The Guardian, on a film about astronaut Jessica Meir’s experience of the pandemic on The International Space Station. She has also been commissioned to create original work for Vice, has been invited to a number of artistic residencies, and served on international juries.
A filmmaker who prioritizes form and bold conceptual framing, Alina is also a lecturer, passionate about instilling courage in young filmmakers and helping them find their voice as documentary artists. She is currently a visiting lecturer in the MA Film program at Hochschule Design Film Kunst Luzern, and has previously been an invited tutor at art academies like The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and Kunsthochschule Kassel.
Her most recent feature documentary, A Summer of Nothing, is currently in post-production.
Contact: manolache[dot]alina[at]gmail[dot]com