Now based in Warsaw, Yuri Semashko was born in Minsk, Belarus, in 1993 and is an engineer by training. A self-taught filmmaker, he has created several short films and animations, including "Blood and Karaoke" (exground filmfest 2024), "Garbage Head" (International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2023) and "When I Was a General" (2021). In 2024, he finished filming his first feature film, "The Swang Song of Fedor Ozerov", which was presented in November 2024 at the Work in Progress session at Cottbus Film Festival.

Source: 75. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)