18.10.2025 at 20:05. NC 2: Landscape Waiting | Adventures of a Real Samurai in the World of Disasters | Old House, Avrora, Small Hall

Time and place

Saturday, 18 October 2025 at 20:05

Aurora Cinema Centre – Small Hall: Nevsky prospect, 60

Description

Landscape Waiting
2025, Russia, 10 min., col., language – Russian, Documentary, Short-length
Director: Mariia Sediaeva

Adventures of a Real Samurai in the World of Disasters
2023, Russia, 39 min., col., o.v. – Russian, Documentary, Short-length
Director: Dmitry Vorobiev, Lida Kanashova

Old House
2025, Россия, 50 мин., col., o.v. – Russian, Documentary, Full-length
Director: Lyubov Korlykhanova

Landscape Waiting

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Mariia Sediaeva

Producer: Mariia Sediaeva

Producer company : End of Summer

Year: 2025

Country: Russia

Duration: 10 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

World premiere

An exercise in capturing anxiety as it disperses through space, people, and the filmmaker’s own mind.

About the director:

Mariia Sediaeva
Animation director and artist. Graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at Ural State University, and later from the Faculty of Animation at the Academy of Architecture, studying under Oksana Cherkasova and Aleksey Karaev. Three of her films have been selected for competition at Message to Man (Slow Sleep, 2010; Tanya, 2017; Immortal Jellyfish, 2020); she has received numerous awards, including the Grand Prix at Kinoproby, Best Animation Prize at Osen Kinofest, and a Jury Diploma at Saint Anna Festival, among others. In 2016, together with Sabrina Karabaeva, she created Russia’s first documentary-animation project, What Am I Doing Here. She also worked on the animation for films by Aleksey Fedorchenko. In 2024, she founded the animation studio “End of Summer”. She spent the previous two years filming her animated series BOOMBOOM: Save the Planet!.

Adventures of a Real Samurai in the World of Disasters

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Dmitry Vorobiev, Lida Kanashova

Operator: Lida Kanashova

Screenwriter: Lida Kanashova

Producer: Dmitry Vorobiev, Alexey Fedorchenko

Producer company : 29th February Film Company with support from the Ministry of Culture of the RF

Year: 2023

Country: Russia

Duration: 39 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

World premiere

Valka cannot keep his balance. He needs crutches to stand and walk, and a bicycle to run. For him, the world is full of perils and mishaps. How can one face life at nine years old, when a wrong step or the slightest push sends you tumbling? To steady himself, Valka has invented a mantra: “I’m a real samurai!” Armed with it, he takes his first independent and courageous steps toward the world.

About the director:

Dmitry Vorobiev
Producer and director. Graduated from the Sverdlovsk Institute of Architecture and later from the Business School of the Ural Gold and Platinum Institute. As a producer, he has worked on about twenty documentary and live-action films. His feature directorial debut, The Brownie and the Lace Maker (1995), won the main prize at the Zolotoy Vityaz Festival. Other works include the documentaries Gosha and the Angels (2008), The White Bird (2011), and Football for Adults (2015).

Lida Kanashova
Screenwriter and director. Graduated from VGIK’s Film Studies Faculty. In collaboration with Aleksey Fedorchenko, she wrote the screenplays for Breathe (short, 2017), Big Snakes of Ulli-Kale (2021), The Last Darling Bulgaria (2022), and Mitrofan Aksenov’s Sausage (2023).

Their first joint directorial work, Valka (2017), won an award at the “Russia” Documentary Film Festival.

Old House

Genres: Documentary, Full-length

Director: Lyubov Korlykhanova

Operator: Anton Skorobogatov

Screenwriter: Lyubov Korlykhanova

Cast: Lyubov Korlykhanova, Nadezhda Korlykhanova

Producer: Maksim Dobromyslov

Producer company : Perevorot Film Company

Year: 2025

Country: Russia

Duration: 50 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

World premiere

A documentary series following a family investigation. Sisters, whose parents died under mysterious circumstances, return to the site of the tragedy. In the series’ first two episodes, they seek to uncover the details of their family’s loss and explore whether childhood trauma can be healed.

About the director:

Lyubov Korlykhanova
Director and screenwriter. Currently studying film directing at the Moscow Film School under Alexey Popogrebsky and Pavel Bardin. Previously worked as an editor at QS Films and Mediaslovo, contributing to TV series and feature films. In 2022, she directed the short film Repka.