Ksenia Onoprienko is a Helsinki-based director and cinematographer working across fiction and documentary. Her films are sincere and emotionally grounded, exploring family, memory, and belonging through female stories.

A graduate of Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Film and Television, she moves between directing, editing, and cinematography, with the camera as her strongest tool. Alongside moving image, she works in photography and graphic design, and brings that visual thinking to fiction and documentary alike.

Off set, you'll find her in the back row of an arthouse screening, wandering the city on foot, or at home with her cat Oskari.

Ksenia Onoprienko

Näkillä on limaiset hiukset

Beyond the Bed of Reeds

Näkillä on limaiset hiukset poster
© Pyry Richter

Short film about friendship, childhood and the traces left by family trauma.

Selected for the 39th Helsinki International Film Festival Love & Anarchy (Rakkautta ja Anarkiaa) in the National Competition: Time Travels.

Won the Love & Anarchy Audience Award.

Director Ksenia Onoprienko
Producer Iina Pesonen
Writer Maarit Seppälä
DP Noora Kukkonen
Sound Designer Diana Hietapakka
Editor Jere Ovaskainen
Composer Ahti Kulo
Set Designer Mesi Kissaniitty
Costume Designer Juulia Järvinen

Starring Rebecca Nugent & Jessica Penttilä
2026
Outtakes
© Evin Yildiz