Kirill Krasovski

Born in 1982 in the USSR, Kirill moved to Germany, where he studied film production at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB), graduating in 2014 with A Proletarian Winter’s Tale (dir. Julian Radlmaier), which enjoyed great success at international festivals, including Rotterdam and Viennale. He has worked as production manager and line producer for various German and international production companies, including NFP,Augenschein Filmproduktion, Ma.Ja.De Fiction, Atoms & Void, Film United, Ulrike Ottinger Filmproduktion, and Weidemann Bros.

He has had a long-standing collaboration with Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa. Through his own production company, Faktura film, he produced films such as Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog, the graduation film by Julian Radlmaier, which premiered in Rotterdam and at the Berlinale in 2017 and won the 2017 German Film Critics’ Award for Best Debut Feature, and Bloodsuckers, which received the BerlinaleKompagnon Förderpreis in 2018 and the German Screenplay Award in 2019, premiering at the Berlinale 2021 in the Encounters section. In 2023, the film Music by director Angela Schanelec, produced by Krasovski, premiered in competition at the Berlinale and won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay. In 2022, he founded the film production company Blue Monticola Film, based in Magdeburg. Since then, he has successfully produced films including Phantoms of July by Julian Radlmaier, the documentary When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea by Eva Neymann, and most recently My Wife Cries by Angela Schanelec, which will have its world premiere in competition at the Berlinale 2026.

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