Genres:
Documentary, Full-length
Director: Olga Averkieva
Operator: Elizaveta Bobyleva, Angelina Avetisyan, Daria Bazhenova, Alexei Romanov
Screenwriter: Olga Averkieva
Composer: Dmitri Konyushevich
Cast: Irina Trofimova, Ekaterina & Alexei Kotelnikov
Producer: Olga Averkieva, Alena Semerikova
Year: 2026
Country: Russia
Duration: 1 h. 3 min.
Languages: Russian
Description
World premiere
Irina is director of the local-history museum in Cherdyn, in the north of the Perm Region. She came for the job a few years ago and grew attached to the place. She loves devising exhibitions, finding a contemporary language in which to speak about history, and turning the museum into a place that feels alive. But the old troubles of the institution haunt her as well: court cases, unease in the staff, a constant strain. The need to take hard decisions begins to wear her down.
About the director:
Olga Averkieva
Director and producer. She graduated from the Perm State Institute of Culture (documentary workshop by Pavel Pechenkin and Rashid Davletshin). Her diploma film A Prodigal Son (2013) won the Grand Prix at Dragon Forum and pitching in Kraków, as well as a Special Prize at Kinoproba Film Festival. Let me live MY life (2018), which she also produced, won the Russian Competition at Flahertiana, Best Documentary at the 8 Women Fest, Best Documentary in the ‘Saratov – Open City’ programme at the Saratov Laments Festival, and the Larisa Bogoraz Special Prize at Stalker Film Festival. Other works as director include Red line. A Story of Love. Mikhail Romanov and Natalya Brasova (2018), Perm. Scientists’ House (2023), Life as Long as Childhood (2024), and The Move (2025).
