Marysia Nikitiuk is an award-winning Ukrainian screenwriter and film director. Her debut feature, When the Trees Fall, received the Krzysztof Kieślowski Award for Best Script and premiered in the Berlinale Panorama section in 2018. She co-wrote Evge/Homeward by Nariman Aliev, which premiered in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section in 2019.

Nikitiuk also co-directed the documentary Traces with Alisa Kovalenko, which won the Audience Award in the Berlinale Panorama section in 2026.