HAPPIN
2024, Russia, 24 min., col., language – Russian, documentary, short-length
Director: Inna Kudryavtseva
THE STORE
2025, Russia, 22 min., col., language – Russian, documentary, short-length
Director: Elizaveta Savvina
BIRTHDAY
2025, Russia, 28 min., col., language – Russian, documentary, short-length
Director: Murad Kamalov
Three regulars at a village store seek love and understanding in conversations with a dog.
About the director:
Elizaveta Savvina
Director. Born in 2004 in Klin. In 2021, she enrolled at VGIK (workshop of Alexey Uchitel and Alexey Geleyn). With her debut work Catching Snowflakes on Her Tongue + Cute Little Drunk (2024), she participated in the National Competition of the 34th Message to Man IFF.
World premiere
Former punk rock musician and party-goer Dima “Spike” reunites with friends to visit the graves of key figures from Pskov’s informal music scene of the 1980s and 1990s. However, locating these burial sites proves challenging. As they wander in search of a deceased lover, they drink and reminisce about their youth at the site of Dima’s own symbolic grave.
About the director:
Murad Kamalov
Documentary director and cinematographer. Born in 1987 in Pskov. Graduated from the Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov School of Documentary Film and Theatre in 2012. Worked in television. Filmed his first work, Scrap Metal, in 2008.
Daria, once a nurse in the city, moved with her husband to a village to start a small dairy farm. After her husband volunteered for the army, Daria was left to manage the household and raise their two young children on her own. This resilient woman perseveres, tending the farm, caring for her children, and awaiting her husband’s return.
About the director:
Inna Kudryavtseva
Cinematographer and director. Graduated in 2021 from the Moscow Film School, where she studied Ilya Demin’s “Art of Cinematography” course. Finalist in the 2024 ArtMasters competition in the “Film and TV Cinematographer” category. She makes live-action films, documentaries, and music videos. Happin is her directorial debut.