Olga Lucovnicova

Documentary filmmaker Olga Lucovnicova (Moldova, 1991) is based in Belgium. Her graduation film My Uncle Tudor (2020) premiered at the Berlinale, where it won the Golden Bear. The film went on to win Best Short Film at the 35th European Film Academy Awards, as well as many other international prizes after it screened at over fifty festivals worldwide.

My Uncle Tudor

Olga Lucovnicova, Belgium, Portugal, Hungary, Moldova, 2020, 20’

After twenty years of silence, filmmaker Olga Lucovnicova returns to her great-grandparents’ home, where she endured traumatic experiences that left a lasting impression on her memory.

Nanu Tudor (Olga Lucovnicova, 2020)

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Rhythms of Silence

Olga Lucovnicova’s My Uncle Tudor (2020)

Emily Jisoo Bowles

01.07.2026

Returning to her great-grandparents’ home in Moldova, where her uncle sexually abused her when she was nine years old, Lucovnicova films the site of her childhood trauma with a detached ambivalence. A shot of the house’s sunlit exterior is bookended by glimpses of uncle Tudor, contesting the idyllic quality of its rural setting. “So fresh, so green,” enthuses her mother, “it’s my childhood and my youth.” Lucovnicova’s lens might capture this nostalgia, but it does not endorse the sentiment.

Olga Lucovnicova

My Uncle Tudor

Rhythms of Silence

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curated by Emily Jisoo Bowles