21.11.2026 at 17:00. Echo: Ekaterinburg. Mother, Before the Sun, Maternal Dreams, Yeltsin Center

Time and place

Saturday, 21 November 2026 at 17:00
Ekaterinburg, Yeltsin Center: Екатеринбург, ул. Бориса Ельцина, 3

Description

MOTHER

2025, 40 min., Russia, language - Russian; short-length documentary

Director: Elizaveta Bobyleva

BEFORE THE SUN

2026, 35 min., Russia, language - Russian; short-length documentary

Director: Alisa Tamarova

MATERNAL DREAMS

2026, 5 min., Russia, language - Russian; short-length documentary

Director: Anna Shveigolts

Mother

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Elizaveta Bobyleva

Operator: Elizaveta Bobyleva

Screenwriter: Elizaveta Bobyleva

Producer: Ekaterina Cherepanova, Rinat Gafarov

Year: 2025

Country: Russia

Duration: 40 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

World premiere

A single day was enough to split Svetlana’s life into “before” and “after.” Her husband left, leaving her to face a new reality on her own. For a year and a half, the camera was in the hands of her eldest daughter. This candid documentary chronicle tells the story of how a woman and her loved ones learn to live a new life, grappling with their fears and discovering new strength.

 

About the director:

Mother

Elizaveta Bobyleva

Filmmaker. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Perm State National Research University with a degree in journalism in 2022. She has taken part in the documentary filmmaking laboratories ‘DocResidence’ and ‘Vidimo. In Focus,’ as well as in the ‘ProCut’ workshop in 2024. Mother is her debut film.

Maternal Dreams

Director: Anna Shveigolts

Screenwriter: Anna Shveigolts

Producer: Anna Shveigolts

Producer company : School of Documentary Animation, Rudnik Film Festival

Year: 2026

Country: Russia

Duration: 5 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

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:

Maternal Dreams

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.

Before the Sun

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Alisa Tamarova

Operator: Pavel Gubarev

Screenwriter: Alisa Tamarova

Cast: Maria Skoboleva, Daniella Skoboleva, Ksenia Ratke, Akim Fedorov, Vilena Levchenko

Producer: Polina Kisochkina, Ksenia Tomchuk

Year: 2026

Country: Russia

Duration: 35 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

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:

Before the Sun

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.