Volia Chajkouskaya is a Belarusian filmmaker, founder and program director of Northern Lights Film Festival in Belarus and of the company Volia Films. She first established herself in the industry as a producer, her producer’s debut The Road Movie, premiered at IDFA and distributed in the US and the world. She moved to Estonia in 2018 and started producing at Allfilm in Tallinn. In 2020, she takes the leap into directing her short debut Common Language, an intimate family drama, premiered at Jihlava IDFF. In August 2020, encouraged by political events in her home country, Volia started to direct her first feature documentary.