Fine Arts graduate Alexandra Pavlovskaya-Lokchine wins Film Fund Wildcard
7 October 2026
The winners of the NFF Debut Competition and NFF Student Competition 2026 were announced at the Nederlands Film Festival (NFF) during the Talent Awards Ceremony at Stadsschouwburg Utrecht. Alexandra Pavlovskaya-Lokchine (Fine Arts, 2026) was awarded a Film Fund Wildcard (€53000) for her graduation project 'Greysnow'. Congratulations Alexandra!
About 'Greysnow'
A state of rupture: is it a condition where neither detachment nor belonging is possible? Greysnow is a sculptural audiovisual installation structured in recurring cycles. The grey zone is a surrounding subject and the internal logic of the work. Human beings are but particles in a storm of events, natural forces, and geopolitical decisions. The limits of individual influence dissolve. The world splinters into fragments— death and birth, timelessness and the present fuse into a single materiality.
The vulnerability and nakedness are laid bare in the face of vast landscapes, events, and the environments that people have created. Sculptural relief-elements function not only as autonomous objects: they operate as scenographic structures referring to the relics of saints in Orthodox monasteries. Greysnow reflects on collective and personal paralysis in moments of historical rupture.
About NFF
Talent and career development are an important part of the NFF programme. Through its competition programmes for recently graduated and debuting directors, the festival gives talented filmmakers a platform and support as they take their first steps into the professional film industry.
The winning films can still be seen tonight at the NFF at 21:30 at Kinepolis. In addition, graduation films are being screened continuously in the NFF Filmcontainer at Stadsschouwburg Utrecht.
