Veronika Bolotina — Writer · Director

Narrative & Documentary

Directed

In festival run 16mm & 8mm Funded by Milanote

It’s Not For Me

Shot on 16mm, a portrait of Lera Dubitskaya, a 27-year-old Belarusian-Polish painter, and of what it costs to make art as a foreigner in Poland.

Director · Exec. ProducerDocumentary · 12 min · 2025 · Warsaw

Lichter FilmfestPrague IFF

Papa Calling

A young woman is stuck in Germany during the first COVID lockdown, on the phone with a father who refuses to believe the virus exists.

DirectorComedy · 5 min · 2020 · Frankfurt

8mm

Favorite Swimsuit

A portrait of my mother, filmed in Croatia, about the beauty I see in her even when she cannot see it herself.

Director · EditorPoetry · 2 min · 4:3 · 2024 · Croatia

Interfilm BerlinPolish Film Festival

The Last Judgement

It’s just another shift for a team of jaded, bureaucratic angels at the Last Judgement. But today their celestial court faces a special case: judges and state officials who sentenced innocent people.

Director · Exec. ProducerComedy · 13 min · 2021 · UK / Germany

FILMZ Comic Con Film Festival

I Don’t Know

Jerry finally works up the courage to ask Sarah out, and sets off an emotional avalanche that anyone who has ever had a crush will recognise.

Director · Exec. ProducerComedy · 12 min · 2018 · Mainz

Music Video

Directed

PromonewsShots

Lazy Morning

A young woman spiralling through the absurd rituals and quiet despair of Berlin’s apartment search.

DirectorSatire · 4 min · 2025 · Used

British Short Film Awards

Take The Pain Away

A girl and a boy wake up in an empty, unfamiliar world where nothing fits. They travel to find their place, get more lost, and finally find each other.

Director · Producer4 min · 2022 · London · Used

Eleven Days

A young woman hides from a breakup inside the memories of eleven colourful days in Spain, until the band start telling her to wake up.

DirectorMusic Video · 2023 · Used · Mallorca

Writing

Features · Shorts · Branded

Features

Feature In script development Funded by STEP, Hessen Film & Medien

I Can’t Change Anything

When civil war erupts in her homeland, a hedonistic rock star must choose between the carefree celebrity life she loves and confronting the traumatic past she’s spent a lifetime escaping, becoming the unlikely voice of a revolution.

Comedy / horror with songs. Developed at TFL Screen of Tomorrow; pitched at EFM Berlinale and Max Ophüls. UK–DE co-production planned.

120 min

Read the synopsis

Katrin is the latest rock sensation on the British music scene. A self-proclaimed party animal with a talent for catchy tunes and questionable life choices, she has no intention of becoming anyone’s political spokesperson. Having fled the dictatorship of Somina at the age of ten, she’d much rather enjoy the rockstar life.

But when civil war erupts in her homeland, Katrin’s carefully curated world begins to fall apart. Suddenly, everyone wants her to speak up, take a stand and become the voice of a revolution. As the pressure mounts, the ghosts of her childhood come back to haunt her, dragging her into a nightmarish collision of music, politics and buried trauma. Now she must decide whether to keep playing the rockstar or finally find her voice, even if it means risking everything.

Feature Treatment complete LIM Less Is More 2026

Chicks Without a Nest

A burned-out Belarusian-German writer, Diana, reunites with her long-lost childhood friend Nastya for a chaotic road trip through Portugal. As old memories resurface and an unspoken intimacy grows between them, the two women navigate the borders between friendship and love, past and present, and the countries they once called home. For Diana, the journey becomes an unexpected chance to find her way back to herself.

90 min

Series Treatment & development Filmfest München 2026

Red Flags

In a Europe shaken by war and migration, six self-contained stories follow young, mobile people struggling to love one another in a world that seems determined to keep them apart. Each story is told in the genre its conflict demands, ranging from romance to suspense.

Inspired by Black Mirror, which explores how technology shapes our society, RED FLAGS explores how political divisions shape the way we love.

Co-written with Clara Devantié. German, Russian, Ukrainian and English.

“What took our parents twenty years of marriage to realise, we experience in just five.”— from the director’s note

6 × 40–60 min

Shorts, in development

None of these are shot yet. They are scripts looking for a producer.

Horror musical short In development, not yet shot Köster Preis, Hamburg

I Am Fine

A 12-minute musical short film about endometriosis and its odyssey of neglect. Meg gets her first symptoms in a supermarket, and as she passes out from the pain she is exposed to a horror musical of women telling her their own experience.

12 min

MockumentaryIn development

Armour

A mockumentary short film about a female knight who forgot how to remove her armour.

Short

Interactive audioCommissionedRunline app

Hellebore

Rick Apelscord is a talented young inventor fleeing his dying planet. He comes to Earth seeking a future and citizenship. But when his social credit device, Hellebore, glitches, he is forced to cheat, run and fight against a system designed for him to fail.

Science fiction / political fiction. German and English. Written 2025–26.

90 min

Branded & Commissioned

CommissionedDelivered

Scriptwriting & Consulting

Studio2B GmbH · Amazon AWS / Kahoot series, 25 min, 2026

Kurzgesagt (In a Nutshell) · writing trial, 1 min, 2026

Warsaw Film School · script consulting on Violin, 15 min, 2024

Ireland Film School · script consulting on The Loneliest Man, 6 min, 2021

Dipsea and OGX · spec concepts

2021–26

Performing

Stand-up · Acting · On camera

I started my journey in theatre school. I always loved the idea of building decorations and weird costumes and the whole world around me, and of being someone else. Later, frustrated by not knowing where to go with performing, I went to art school and learned storytelling from the perspective of someone who draws. That did not last long either.

My unconventional educational and professional background has made me comfortable moving between creative disciplines. I see filmmaking as an interconnected artistic process in which writing, acting and directing constantly inform and enrich one another. Exploring one discipline often gives me a new perspective on another, opening up different ways of approaching a story or a character.

I’m particularly drawn to artists who move freely between writing, acting and directing, creating distinctive worlds of their own. Stand-up comedy is another way for me to explore this creative interplay. Performing in front of an audience allows me to test ideas, discover what works, recognise what falls flat and experiment with different angles.

Stand-up comedy: English-language, at Propaganda Comedy, Zebra Bar, Cosmic Comedy, East West Comedy and Saligari in Berlin
Acting education: theatre school; improv & comedy; acting courses at Pinewood Studios, City Lit and City Academy in London; House of Actors Montreal; Actors Studio Mallorca
Accents: American English
Languages on camera: Russian & Belarusian (native), German & English (fluent)
Intimacy coordination: BVR trained (2023)
Also: academic drawing, photography
Sport: athletic. Gym, volleyball, football

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Press

What other people wrote

“An intimate examination of painter Lera Dubitskaya’s life and artistic practice — the difficulties she faces as an immigrant artist, and the conceptual landscapes her paintings explore.”

Natalia Albin · Short Stuff · June 2026

Promonews ↗ Shots ↗ Frame Set ↗ Kaltblut ↗ David Reviews ↗ Indie Shorts Mag ↗ Beyond the Short ↗ Femalexperts ↗ Screen Daily ↗ Short Stuff ↗

Labs, Funding & Festivals

Labs & Training

2026LIM Less Is MoreChicks Without a Nest
2025Sibylle Kurz Pitching
2024TFL Screen of Tomorrow Script LabI Can’t Change Anything
2023BVR Intimacy Coordination

Funding & Awards

2025BFI Female Film Club Scholarship
2023STEP, Hessen Film & Medien Author ScholarshipScript development, I Can’t Change Anything
2020–22DAAD Research ScholarshipMA, London
2017–22Friedrich Ebert ScholarshipBA, Germany
2018FILMZI Don’t Know
FILMZ Audience AwardHellebore pitch

Festivals & Markets

2026Filmfest München PitchRed Flags
2024EFM BerlinaleI Can’t Change Anything
2025Max Ophüls DrehbuchmarktplatzI Can’t Change Anything
Interfilm BerlinThe Last Judgement
Polish Film FestivalThe Last Judgement
Independent Days Karlsruhe IFFI Don’t Know
Lichter Filmfest · REC · Prague IFF · European Short FFPapa Calling
Comic Con Film Festival · Girls Go MoviesI Don’t Know

About

Young Veronika Mom, I’m thinking about becoming a film director. Mom (busy, typing on her computer) Oh, dear, isn’t that usually a job for men? Young Veronika Alright. I’ll go ask Dad. Mom Alright. He is in the kitchen, cooking lasagna for dinner. Young Veronika Ok.

Hey there. My name is Veronika.

I grew up in Belarus, a little kid obsessed with characters, books and films, which helped me lose myself in escapism while living in a post-Soviet country.

I went to theatre school first and quickly realised I wanted to see more of the world. That quest took me to Germany to study media and film, and later to London for a research master’s, where I explored acting and directing, thanks to the DAAD and the Friedrich Ebert scholarship.

A bit like a mad scientist, I sometimes feel like a fountain of ideas that keeps generating scripts. I work in development, I direct, and I perform comedy, because humour always saved me and kept me from going insane.

My shorts have screened at Oberhausen, interfilm Berlin, Lichter Filmfest, FiSH and Comic Con Film Festival. For my feature I received the STEP Author Scholarship, a script development grant from Hessen Film, and after that came the script labs, TFL Torino and Less Is More, where I learned a lot of techniques for developing a script.

I am always on the lookout for partners in crime and for great character-driven stories.

Berlin · Frankfurt · London · Warsaw EU passport · works across ES / PL / UK / DE Crew United ↗ BVR Regieverband ↗ Verdi

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VERONIKABOLOTINAWriter · Director · Performer