Marie-Magdalena Kochová is a Czech director based in Prague. She graduated from New Media in Pilsen and Documentary Film at FAMU in Prague. Her short film Apparatgeist (2019) was granted the Special Mention at the Ji.hlava IDFF 2019. Her next short film Shells (2022) premiered at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2022, competed at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2023, was selected to The Hottest Shorts of Hot Docs 2023, and won The Best International Student Film Award at Cinedans Film Festival Amsterdam 2023. Her work focuses on personal and social themes through documentary and fictional forms, and she is currently working on her first documentary feature film The Other One.