The Ukrainian director studied at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University and subsequently at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Poland. She has been a member of the European Film Academy since 2017. She made the films Black Dogs Barking (2009), Love Me (2013) and Omar and Us (2019) together with her husband Mehmet Bahadir Er. Klondike is the first film she has written and directed alone.