Sara Maria Bărbat is a young queer filmmaker, writer, and visual storyteller from Alba Iulia, Romania. She explores identity, memory, and emotion through experimental short films that blend poetry, introspection, and raw imagery.

Her work often begins with a feeling — something she can’t name but needs to express — and grows from there into fragments of voice, light, and movement. For her, filmmaking is a way of turning inner chaos into meaning, of making sense of what cannot be said aloud.

Sara is also involved in theatre, photography, and film clubs, constantly seeking new ways to understand and express what it means to be human.