23.10.2024 at 18:40. NC-6: WANDERING PAIN, HI PAPA, Aurora

Time and place

Wednesday, 23 October 2024 at 18:40

Aurora Cinema Centre – Small Hall: Nevsky prospect, 60

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Description

WANDERING PAIN
2024, Russia, 8 min., col.
Director Eugeniya Gorda

HI PAPA!
2024, Russia, 79 min., col.
Director Aleksandra Kretsan

"Wandering pain"

Genres: Documentary, Short-length

Director: Eugeniya Gorda

Operator: Eugeniya Gorda

Screenwriter: Kseniia Gutova

Producer: Lika Alekseeva

Producer company : LA Production

Year: 2024

Country: Russia

Duration: 8 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

A film-memoir about the first honest conversation between an adult daughter and the father with whom she had never had a close relationship. Several days after the meeting, her father vanishes without trace once more, this time forever.

About the director:

Eugeniya Gorda
Director, animator. Born in the village of Rodino in the Altai Territory, Evgeniya Gorda graduated from the journalism faculty of Tomsk State University. In 2023, as part of a film laboratory at the Rudnik festival, she made an educational animated documentary film titled Chastichno (Partially), which was selected for the programme of the Kinoprobafestival. The Wandering Pain is Evgeniya Gorda’s directorial debut.

"Hi Papa!"

Genres: Documentary, Full-length

Director: Aleksandra Kretsan

Operator: Boris Ulitowski, Marina Levashova

Screenwriter: Aleksandra Kretsan, Boris Ulitowski

Producer: Aleksandra Kretsan, Egor Kretsan

Year: 2024

Country: Russia-Kazakhstan

Duration: 1 h. 19 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

Nadya is 31 years old. When she was younger, she ran away from her native Kazakh village to a large Russian city, where she began a new life with a new name, a new story, and, ultimately, a new destiny. Years later, she decides to return to her homeland, where her father still lives, in order to face her biggest childhood fear and become whole at last.

About the director:

Aleksandra Kretsan
Director, producer, and TEFI award winner. Born in St. Petersburg, Sasha Kretsan graduated from the journalism faculty at St. Petersburg State University, and later took part in the DocTrain programme under the curation of Marina Razbezhkina and Arne Birkenstock. She has also worked as an executive producer and director on the Kino TV television channel. She is the author of the films A Shroud of Incense (2019) and Through the Winter (2020).