Hana Umeda

In 2018, she was awarded a scholarship from the Młoda Polska programme by the National Centre for Culture, where she made her directorial debut with a performance at KOMUNA WARSZAWA. In 2022, she won the first edition of the New Situations Scene Artistic Residency at the Contemporary Theatre in Szczecin. Additionally, she was nominated for the IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction (IDFA DocLab: Phenomenal Friction, Amsterdam, 2023) for the VR installation Close, which initiated her research into the intergenerational traces of sexual violence.