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Taragaon Talks with Polina Piddubna: Animated Realities

January 03, 2026 | 4 pm

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Taragaon Next x Polina Piddubna

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Berlin-based filmmaker Polina Piddubna will openly share her powerful story of creating art since her teenage years and navigating the international art world. She will talk about how her experiences coming from a war-affected country have influenced her work, as well as the joys and challenges she has experienced along the way.


Creations of participants’ creations from Stop Motion Workshop on 27th and 28th December, 2025 along with Polina’s animation films will be screened during the Talk.


The film-screening will also be followed by a short Q/A.


Time: 3rd January 2026 (Saturday), 16:00 onwards.

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Polina Piddubna

Filmmaker, artist and activist with Ukrainian and Central Asian Tatar and
Bashqort roots. Polina was born and raised in Kharkiv, started her career in Kyiv, and
has been living in Berlin since 2019. She has a bachelor's degree in animation and is
currently doing her master's as an animation director at the Film University Babelsberg
Konrad Wolf in Potsdam. Polina also organises social and educational projects, works at
film festivals and does artistic research on decolonial topics.

Animated Realities