Basia Napora is a Polish film director and video artist based in Berlin.

She studied Media Arts with an emphasis on film directing, writing, media theory and audiovisual techniques at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, visual communication at the Peter Behrens School of Arts and art history at the University of Wrocław. She has participated in diverse film workshops e.g. with Dieter Wardetzky, Robert Marchand, Marcel Lozinski, Andrzej Jaroszewicz.

Since 2012 she has been working with lens-based media and narrative formats, which find synthesis in her recent film work. In 2019, together with Oskar Brummel, she made the short film Love Forgives Everything. ENGRAM is her first feature film.

In the theater context, she worked together with Hannah Dörr on the video installation for the play Rheinische Rebellen directed by Sebastian Baumgarten at Schauspiel Köln, and on Die Dreigroschenoper directed by Andreas Kriegenburg as a trainee director at Shauspielhaus Düsseldorf.

Apart from cinematic and narrative formats, she works as DOP for numerous theater, music videos, documentaries, cultural events and live camera projects in Germany and Poland.