Dáša Raimanová is a London-Berlin-based documentary filmmaker from Slovakia, whose short documentaries have been commissioned by broadcasters including Al Jazeera Witness, ARTE and DW, reaching a worldwide audience of millions. Her independent documentary short The Exhibition (2026) opened the GoEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Cinema in Germany and is currently touring, among others, human rights, Roma and LGBTQ+ film festivals, alongside outreach screenings organised by the European Roma Institute of Arts and Culture (ERIAC). Her short documentary Gypsy Gadji (2024) won Best Short Documentary at Lucania Film Festival. POLYLAND (2018), an activist documentary she directed and co-produced, screened internationally and became part of Amnesty International’s campaign against hate crimes in Poland.

Her work has been supported by Creative Europe, EBU, the Polish Film Institute, Fritt Ord Fund, Lush and Okre Fund.

Alongside filmmaking, Dáša is part of the programming team in the documentary department at DW and works as a producer and programmer at Otherfield Film Festival, focusing on non-fiction and filmmaking processes in the UK.

Dáša is an alumna of EsoDoc, Dok Lab Poland, GoEast and Dok Incubator (observer), and holds a degree in Film, Video and Interactive Arts from Middlesex University (UK), as well as degrees in Biological Anthropology (BA) and Cognitive Sciences (MA) from Universität Wien (AT) and Université Lyon (FR).