Kira Muratova (1934-2018) was a critically acclaimed master of Ukrainian cinema, known for her unusual directorial style and lyrical, eccentric, and highly distinctive films that yet have to receive more worldwide recognition. Muratova spent most of her artistic career in Odessa, Ukraine creating her films with local studios, mostly casting local actors. Muratova’s extraordinarily vision, unique imagination, and feminist sensibility is exemplified in twenty-two works she has directed between 1961 and 2012. Many of them, however, remained barely known within and outside the Soviet Union before the late 1980s, since her films often underwent state censorship. It was only during Perestroyka that Muratova started receiving wider public recognition and her first awards. In 1988, the International Women’s Film Festival Créteil (France) showed the first retrospective of her works. Her film Among Grey Stones was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and her Asthenic Syndrome won the Jury Grand Prix at the 1990 Berlinale. From then on, Muratova’s films have been regularly premiering at international film festivals in Berlin, Cannes, Moscow, Rome, Venice, and other places. Muratova is considered to be the most idiosyncratic Ukrainian film director, whose works can be seen as postmodern, employing eclecticism, parody, discontinuous editing, disrupted narration, and intense visual and sound stimuli.