Zuzana Piussi

Slovakian director

Zuzana Piussi is renowned Slovak documentary woman filmmaker and authorial actor, living in Prague. She has participated in famous Bratislava’s Stoka Theatre in the 90ies, then she graduated from Bratislava’s Film Academy and since 2003 she has made nearly twenty full length documentary films, mostly with social-political topics, her last film The Ordeal (2021) released and awarded in Ji.hlava IDFF follows her successful docu-thriller on “kidnapping” of Slovak justice system The Disease of the Third Power (2011) and reflects theme of misusing the justice and possible ways of its reform. In 2022 she released her full length fiction debut The Unbalanced.