DISC
2025, 7 min., Russia, language - Russian; short-length documentary
Director: Marina Sokol
SIGNS OF FATIGUE
2026, 20 min., Russia, language - Russian; short-length feature
Director: Maxim Kuzhba
SMP-340
2025, 9 min., Russia, language - Russian; short-length documentary
Director: Alisa Safiullina
EMPTY PLACES
2026, 27 min., Russia, language - Russian; short-length feature
Director: Alexey Chamin
CALENDAR
2026, 8 min., Russia, language - Russian; short-length feature
Director: Vladimir Kondrashov
An old external hard drive holds photographs of a father who is no longer there. Opening them, the director goes back into childhood — small scenes of family life, sounds, touches, and the image of a man who still lives in her memory. With the memories, the pain of loss returns as well.
About the director:
Marina Sokol
Marina Sokol graduated from St. Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences (SPbGUP) with a degree in multimedia directing.
A retired workaholic tries to put new meaning into his days. He comes across his wife’s tear-off calendar, with birthdays of friends and relatives marked. Calling people long since forgotten leads to consequences no one could have guessed.
About the director:
Vladimir Kondrashov
Vladimir Kondrashov completed Artur Aristakisyan’s workshop at the Moscow School of New Cinema.
World premiere
Ivan, a young music teacher, is overtaken by an illness that seems no different from ordinary flu. He tries to go on as before, but the symptoms do not lift; they only grow, and slowly warp his sense of the world and of himself.
About the director:
Maxim Kuzhba
Maxim Kuzhba completed Artur Aristakisyan’s directing workshop at the St. Petersburg School of New Cinema.
The search for a lamb lost in the mountains brings a shepherdess to a strange girl studying the acoustics of a local cave. A tale of sound waves and invisible ties unfolds like the dream of a lonely woman on her way home after a long working day.
About the director:
Alexey Chamin
Alexey Chamin graduated from GITR as a director of film and television.
Rewatching a family VHS archive, the author finds a mismatch between her own memory of childhood and the memory stored on tape. That gap becomes the starting point for a study of memory as a moving medium, whose elements continually interweave, erase one another, and overwrite themselves, building a new, elusive reality.
The film was made as part of the “Personal History” film lab at the Zotov Center.
About the director:
Alisa Safiullina
Alisa Safiullina graduated as a director from the Theatre Department of the Ufa Academy of Arts.
