27. Darko Bratina Award

Alexandra Gulea (1970, Bucharest, Romania) graduated cum laude in 1997 from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After participating in several painting exhibitions, she studied documentary filmmaking at the Munich Film School and since 1999 has directed documentary films, shorts, video installations, and feature fiction films. She has also worked as an editor on several movies.

"Kinoatelje is awarding the 2026 Darko Bratina Award to Alexandra Gulea for her original body of work, in which a personal search for roots becomes a universal story about the deeper meaning of community, identity, and belonging. In her work, she weaves together performance art and anthropological research, personal inquiry and theatre of the absurd."