Dutch director Aliona van der Horst was born in Moscow, Russia and studied Russian literature at the University of Amsterdam and film at the Dutch Film and Television Academy. She began her career in 1997 with the much-acclaimed The Lady with the White Hat and since then has received multiple awards for most of her films. In many of her films, art and artists play an essential role. Her films are meticulously crafted, she melds intuitive-associative processes with essay and experimentation, paying a lot of attention to style, sound and rhythm.
