Aliona van der Horst
The Dutch director Aliona van der Horst was born in 1970 in Moscow, Russia. She studied Russian Language and Literature at the University of Amsterdam and film at the Dutch Film and Television Academy. She began her career as a director in 1977 and since then has received several awards, among them the Grand Prize at the International Festival of Films on Arts, Montréal, Canada, 2006.
Recently she has received the Jan Kassies prize, awarded by the Dutch Cultural Broadcasting Fund.