Award-winning transnational filmmaker Andrei Zagdansky received MFA from Kiev State Institute of Theatrical Arts in Kiev, Ukraine.
His first feature documentary "Interpretation of Dreams", juxtaposed a dialog between the filmmaker and Dr. Sigmund Freud and the history of the Soviet Union and Europe. The result was an "astonishing marriage of Freudian thinking and history” (Boston Globe). Film received Grand-Prix at home, critical acclaim abroad and was included in New Directors/New Films Series for the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1991.

In 1992 Andrei with his wife Tamara and son Alexei settled in the United States. Two years later Andrei received a green card as "an alien of extraordinary abilities".
For several years Andrei worked as a free-lance producer for the Russian-American Broadcasting company. He also taught courses on Film History at the New School University.

In 2002 Andrei produced/directed/edited his first independent documentary "Vasya" which explores striking images of a Russian émigré painter Vasily Sitnikov and his much puzzling myth. "Vasya" is a "hybrid" film and freely intertwines documentary footage with animated reenactments.

In 2006: "Konstantin and Mouse", about an avant-garde figure and performance poet Konstantin K. Kuzminsky.

in 2007: "Orange Winter" ,that chronicles political turmoil in the streets of Kiev in 2004.

Andrei's latest project - "My Father Evgeni" is about Andrei's father, who was also a filmmaker and editor-in chief of state film studio during the '60's and '70's.  "My Father Evgeni" is "...a smart, impressionistic documentary about the passage of historical time as experienced by father and son. Using a cleverly thought out combination of archival footage, family movies and films from his father’s studio, bracketed by haunting footage of the now deserted corridors of that film factory, Andrei traces his family’s and his nation’s complicated, fractured history" (George Robinson). 

"My Father Evgeni" was awarded the Laurel Branch fot the Best Feature Documentary (Moscow, Russia) and screened at international film festivals in Amsterdam - IDFA,  New York, Madrid, Krakow, Kiev, Moscow, Israel.