24.10.2024 at 19:00. NC-8: DIF-FRIEND, NEVESTA, Aurora

Time and place

Thursday, 24 October 2024 at 19:00

Aurora Cinema Centre – Small Hall: Nevsky prospect, 60

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DIF-FRIEND
2023, Russia, 16 min., col.
Director and screenwriter Nastia Ivanova

NEVESTA
2024, Russia, 61 min., col.
Director Inna Omelchenko

"Dif-friend"

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Nastya Ivanova

Operator: Nastya Ivanova, Uliana Popova

Screenwriter: Nastya Ivanova

Cast: Nastya Ivanova, Sasha Ceber, Uliana Popova, Maria Zhigurova, Maria Kartashova, Oxana Ivanova, Maxim Ivanov

Year: 2024

Country: Russia

Duration: 16 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

After losing a friend whose presence gave a sacred meaning to many moments in the protagonist’s life and the places where they met, she attempts to understand how she should relate to this sacrality now.

About the director:

Alexey Fedorchenko
Director, animator. In 2022, Nastya Ivanova graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute with a degree in dramaturgy. She has studied cinematography under Yury Mikhailin, Sasha Salman, Masha Godovannaya, Masha Chernaya, Dina Karamanand Mikhail Zheleznikov, taught herself puppet animation and made two animated videos for the band Morganiye Skvoz. Since 2022 she has been teaching animation for the Zhiznenniy Put (“Life Path”) charitable foundation. Filmography: Light Flight (2021, animated short), I Am Not a Dolphin (2023, documentary short), The Second Day (2023, short), I Will Recover with Time (2023, experimental short), The Word is Superfluous (2024, experimental short).

"Wife to be"

Genres: Documentary, Full-length

Director: Inna Omelchenko

Operator: Inna Omelchenko

Screenwriter: Inna Omelchenko

Cast: Tatyana Yurshevskaya, Elena Nikitina, Anna Nikitina, Viktoria Nikitina

Producer: Aleksandr Plotnikov, Boris Khlebnikov, Anna Tikhonova

Producer company : Look Film

Year: 2024

Country: Russia

Duration: 1 h. 1 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

The film focuses on women from a family living in southern Russia: two sisters, their mother, and grandmother. Every summer, the younger women visit the elders, returning to their roots and embracing a traditional way of life. This household is deeply matriarchal—men are present but play secondary roles. The film’s space is filled with rituals: fortune-telling, herb gathering, and bathing. Here, the sacred is intertwined with the mundane. The daughters follow the life paths of their mother, who once traced the steps of the older women in the family.

About the director:

Inna Omelchenko
Documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and editor. Born in Armavir in 1991, she graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2014 and the School of Documentary Film and Theater of Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov in 2015. Her debut film Yamaha (2015) won Best Debut and Best Short Film at the national competition of Message to Man IFF and the national film schools’ competition at ‘Listapad’ in Minsk. Her subsequent work, Paper Stars, premiered at IDFA in 2016 and received the Silver Eye award at Jihlava in 2017. The film was also showcased at Message to Man.