Anna Savchenko is a documentary filmmaker and editor originally from Belarus who lives and works between Belgium and Spain. She studied documentary directing on the international master’s programme DocNomads and focuses on creative documentaries, hybrid and experimental films. Anna has edited several notable feature projects. Murmuring Hearts won the Young Europeans Award at Fipadoc 2025, received the award for best cinematography at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and was nominated for best editing at the Lithuanian Silver Crane 2025 awards. Touche won best editing at the Rome International Documentary Festival and best documentary at Salina Doc Fest, and was in the official competition at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2024. She also edited The Tree of Violence, an episode of Draw For Change, which was part of the series awarded best series at Canneseries 2024; this work premiered at Fipadoc and Docville in 2024. Earlier, she edited the closing film of Visions du Réel 2019, We Will Remember Them. As a director, Anna made Where the World Ends and directed and edited Before They Meet for the Borderline documentary series with Off World Production in Belgium; both works screened at international festivals. She also supervised editing on El color del camaleón, a festival-selected documentary that won several awards, and she regularly works as a trailer editor. Her feature-length documentary as director, 72 Hours, is currently in post-production. The project was shown at Cannes Docs Market 2022 and has received several awards, including the FIFDH Geneva Impact Day Award 2021, the Czech Television Co-Production Award at East Doc Market 2021 and the European Women’s Audiovisual Network Talent Award at Dok Leipzig 2019. It was named Best Work in Progress: Central and Eastern Europe at Sunny Side of the Doc 2021. Anna has taken part in internationally acclaimed training programmes such as Dok Incubator, Ex Oriente Series, EsoDoc, CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator, IDFA Academy, Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries, EurasiaDoc and B2B Doc. She is fluent in Russian, Belarusian, English, Spanish, Italian and French. Full portfolio at annasavchenko.com

Anna Savchenko

Anna Savchenko is a documentary filmmaker and editor originally from Belarus who lives and works between Belgium and Spain. She studied documentary directing on the international master’s programme DocNomads and focuses on creative documentaries, hybrid and experimental films. Anna has edited several notable feature projects. Murmuring Hearts won the Young Europeans Award at Fipadoc 2025, received the award for best cinematography at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and was nominated for best editing at the Lithuanian Silver Crane 2025 awards. Touche won best editing at the Rome International Documentary Festival and best documentary at Salina Doc Fest, and was in the official competition at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2024. She also edited The Tree of Violence, an episode of Draw For Change, which was part of the series awarded best series at Canneseries 2024; this work premiered at Fipadoc and Docville in 2024. Earlier, she edited the closing film of Visions du Réel 2019, We Will Remember Them. As a director, Anna made Where the World Ends and directed and edited Before They Meet for the Borderline documentary series with Off World Production in Belgium; both works screened at international festivals. She also supervised editing on El color del camaleón, a festival-selected documentary that won several awards, and she regularly works as a trailer editor. Her feature-length documentary as director, 72 Hours, is currently in post-production. The project was shown at Cannes Docs Market 2022 and has received several awards, including the FIFDH Geneva Impact Day Award 2021, the Czech Television Co-Production Award at East Doc Market 2021 and the European Women’s Audiovisual Network Talent Award at Dok Leipzig 2019. It was named Best Work in Progress: Central and Eastern Europe at Sunny Side of the Doc 2021. Anna has taken part in internationally acclaimed training programmes such as Dok Incubator, Ex Oriente Series, EsoDoc, CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator, IDFA Academy, Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries, EurasiaDoc and B2B Doc. She is fluent in Russian, Belarusian, English, Spanish, Italian and French. Full portfolio at annasavchenko.com

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Anna Savchenko is a documentary filmmaker and editor originally from Belarus who lives and works between Belgium and Spain. She studied documentary directing on the international master’s programme DocNomads and focuses on creative documentaries, hybrid and experimental films.
Anna has edited several notable feature projects. Murmuring Hearts won the Young Europeans Award at Fipadoc 2025, received the award for best cinematography at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and was nominated for best editing at the Lithuanian Silver Crane 2025 awards. Touche won best editing at the Rome International Documentary Festival and best documentary at Salina Doc Fest, and was in the official competition at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2024. She also edited The Tree of Violence, an episode of Draw For Change, which was part of the series awarded best series at Canneseries 2024; this work premiered at Fipadoc and Docville in 2024. Earlier, she edited the closing film of Visions du Réel 2019, We Will Remember Them.
As a director, Anna made Where the World Ends and directed and edited Before They Meet for the Borderline documentary series with Off World Production in Belgium; both works screened at international festivals. She also supervised editing on El color del camaleón, a festival-selected documentary that won several awards, and she regularly works as a trailer editor.
Her feature-length documentary as director, 72 Hours, is currently in post-production. The project was shown at Cannes Docs Market 2022 and has received several awards, including the FIFDH Geneva Impact Day Award 2021, the Czech Television Co-Production Award at East Doc Market 2021 and the European Women’s Audiovisual Network Talent Award at Dok Leipzig 2019. It was named Best Work in Progress: Central and Eastern Europe at Sunny Side of the Doc 2021.
Anna has taken part in internationally acclaimed training programmes such as Dok Incubator, Ex Oriente Series, EsoDoc, CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator, IDFA Academy, Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries, EurasiaDoc and B2B Doc. She is fluent in Russian, Belarusian, English, Spanish, Italian and French. Full portfolio at annasavchenko.com

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