Eva Neymann, born in 1974 in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, studied law in Marburg and film directing at the DFFB Berlin. After her successful short film Freeze, Thaw (2001), she made several documentaries that were shown at international festivals. In 2007, her feature film debut At the River premiered at the IFFR Rotterdam. Her second feature film, House with a Turret (2012), was part of the East of the West competition in Karlovy Vary, where her third feature film, Song of Songs, was also shown in 2015. Her documentary Pryvoz was part of Doclisboa in 2021. Neymann lives and works in Berlin.