CHICKS
2025, 4 min., Russia, language - Russian; short-length documentary
Director: Anna Donskova
STATUS “B”
2026, 19 min., Russia, language - Russian; short-length documentary
Director: Gleb Vazhdaev
MATERNAL DREAMS
2026, 5 min., Russia, language - Russian; short-length documentary
Director: Anna Shveigolts
BEFORE THE SUN
2026, 35 min., Russia, language - Russian; short-length documentary
Director: Alisa Tamarova
World premiere
Three would-be lovers meet in a military hospital.
About the director:
Gleb Vazhdaev
Director and screenwriter. Born in 1995 in Nizhny Novgorod. He graduated from the Screenwriting Department at VGIK, having previously earned a law degree. He has written scripts for TV series. Status “B” is his directorial debut.
World premiere
Once I had a prophetic dream about a miscarriage. The idea for the film grew out of that dream. Dreams of pregnancy and childbirth, with rare exceptions, come only to women — whether they have children or not. Through 2025, women anonymously sent in their dreams of motherhood via Google Forms. Some of those dreams became the basis for my film.
About the director:
Anna Shveigolts
Animation director, artist, and illustrator. She graduated as a ceramicist from the Abramtsevo College of Art and Industry, and later from VGIK as an animation director (workshop of Valentin Olshvang) and from the SHAR School Studio, where she also worked as an artist on Andrei Khrzhanovsky’s film The Nose, or the Conspiracy of Mavericks. Her film Oh Whose Is the Rye won Best Animated Film at the Saint Anna Festival, a Special Mention at the Big Cartoon Festival, and other accolades; her next film, Mama America (2023), was awarded jury diplomas in the National Competition at the 33rd Message to Man and at the Insomnia Animation Festival.
World premiere
A summer camp on the Black Sea becomes a coming-of-age place for teenagers from an orphanage. Masha looks after her younger sister; Ksyusha lives with the fallout of a first love; Akim waits in the hope that his father will soon return.
About the director:
Alisa Tamarova
Filmmaker. Graduate of the St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television, workshop of Alexander Markov and Maria Popritsak. The Dream (2022) and Decay (2023) were featured at the Saint Anna Festival; her coursework project film Three Lives of Boris (2025) competed in the National Competition of the 35th Message to Man IFF. Before the Sun is her graduation film.
The everyday lives of young women after arrest — in a detention centre, and in the time before.
About the director:
Anna Donskova
Director and animator. She graduated in animation from the Business & Design Institute in 2023 and as a director of animated film from the Big Animation School (Roza Gimatdinova’s workshop) in 2026. Her film And Maybe Over There They… (2026) screened in the Russian section of the Big Cartoon Festival.
Contacts:
studiopchela.ru
pchelastudiofest@gmail.com
