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IFF Message to Man > 2023 > International Competition: Documentary films > Planet D

Planet D

Information about the film

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Olesya Rudyka

Operator: Yaroslav Golovkin, Sasha Veremchuk, Olesya Rudyka

Year: 2023

Country: Russia

Duration: 14 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

Synopsis:
Could another form of life be waiting for us? Somewhere out there, on a distant Planet D? The film is composed of footage captured in a teenage prison camp, where the author led classes for inmates in 2018, as well as from family video chronicles made in the 1990s. Olesya Rudyka reflects: “When my dad was released from incarceration, we believed we had our whole life ahead of us. He seemed to understand that leaving prison isn’t the end – it stays with you indefinitely and, sooner or later, catches up with you unexpectedly, like a bullet”.

About the director:
Olesya Rudyka. Director, producer, art-director. She graduated from The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia (2017, video workshop) and Higher School of Economics (2022, Film and Television Production). Olesya Rudyka worked in stage directing and production groups, supervised the work of production houses, developed and implemented advertising campaigns. In 2018, she visited a juvenile colony and developed a career guidance program for teenagers.

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