Julia Sokolnicka (born in Warsaw in 1983) is an experimental and documentary filmmaker, writer and researcher.  Her practice moves between social philosophy, video and performance. She studied Philosophy at the Warsaw University, Film Directing in the Wajda School in Warsaw and Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice. In 2016 she graduated from the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam with a degree in Artistic Research in Film. In her current projects, she works with social choreographies, notion of Realness, simultaneous narratives and big archives.  Her projects “Digital Nomads” and “Social Choreographies” focus on community bonding and identity of the global youth. Both projects address the utopias of solidarity and problems of multicultural societies and combine performance art and cinema through formal experiments and theoretical exploration. Julia lives and works in Amsterdam. She’s a coordinator of the “Hearth” Artistic Research in Film program hosted by DeAppel gallery. She’s a co-creator of Researcher’s Office and Professional Standards Network for Artists activating groups and a performative intervention group Physical People. Her short documentary film “Side Roads” has received a number of international awards and a distribution in most prestigious, Polish cultural channels such as TVP Kultura and Ninateka.