Xandra Popescu works as a writer and filmmaker. She studied Political Science and Dramatic Writing. Between 2010 and 2019 she worked as a curator and, sometimes as a writer for film and theater. Between 2011 and 2013 she collaborated with the director Ștefan Constantinescu for the scripts of Family Dinner screened in Semaine de la Critique in Cannes and Six Big Fish which premiered in the competition of the Locarno Film Festival. In 2016 she collaborated with director Alexandra Bălteanu on the script of Vânătoare, which premiered at the San Sebastian and won the MAX OPHÜLS prize in Saarbrücken as well as the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. Between 2014 and 2018, together with artist Larisa Crunțeanu, she was the curator of the Atelier 35, a project space in Bucharest dedicated to installation, installation, performance and video art. She is one of the initiators of D'EST, a video art platform that maps out artistic reflections of post-socialist transformations. Since 2019 she studies directing at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin.