Walter Stokman

(1966) is a film documentary director and screenwriter. Stokman gained fame with ASH World Wide Suicide (2002), a documentary about American suicidal persons. For this film, he won the Best Documentary award at the Brooklyn Festival and received a Golden Calf. His documentaries are screened at festivals around the world and often win awards. Subsequently, he made films including Based on a True Story (2004), Beautiful in Beaufort Wes (2006), Scena del Crimine (Venice Film Festival selection, special mention Docudays Kiev), Dirty Window (2012) in which he follows the trail back to Hungary of a 19-year-old prostitute murdered in the Amsterdam Red Light District in 2009, Teledoc Adelborsten (2014) and true crime doc Lazy Duck (2022). In his new film The Kyiv Files, Stokman delves into old KGB files. In doing so, he examines files of people who, unbeknownst to them, were shadowed by the Soviet secret service.