Haruna Honcoop is a Prague-based Czech-Japanese filmmaker and film producer. After graduating from Chinese studies at Charles University, she enrolled in the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), where she is currently a PhD candidate. As a film director, she made her debut with the experimental film essay Built to Last – Relics of Communist-Era Architecture (2017), which was awarded the Archfilm Lund festival prize. Her short film True or False (2016) won a prize at This Human World festival in Vienna. Her documentary film Olympic Halftime that deals with the architecture and urbanism of Olympic cities in Beijing, Tokyo, Paris and Athens premiered at Ji.hlava International Documentary festival in 2023. Her newest project, a fiction-documentary film Annexions telling the story of annexations from German, French and Czech point-of-view premiered at Ostrava Kamera Oko festival in November 2023. Currently, she is working on a new documentary film project called The Island of Freedom (2026).
She has collaborated on numerous international film productions, commercials and other commissioned works.
