Rudnik

A walk through memory as an attempt to say to someone gone what was left unsaid.

The story of a grandmother who faces impending death. But in a difficult moment she finds solace and inner peace in a dream.

A novice documentarian wants a place at film school and sets out to shoot a study of an interesting person. Finding no one at 11 at night, she ends up at the Smolensk Cemetery, at Aleksei Balabanov’s grave. Trying to make a film of it, she comes away with a string of botched sketches: a couple on a first date; a painter who has spent years on a portrait of Balabanov;people who turn up to drink and argue about cinema. It was dark, the camera pointed the wrong way, she had promised not to show a thing, she walked out on her subject. Everything that mattered was not caught on camera, and so it was drawn.

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.

Animation documentary about the filmmaker's friend.

New cartoon by Jordania Mariam (School of Documentary Animation at the Rudnik Festival).

A film about the importance of memories.

The film tells about the Nazino tragedy — the events of 1933 in the north of Tomsk Oblast, during which about 6,000 people were exiled to an uninhabited island, most of whom died within a few days. The incident was the result of an inhumane policy of "cleansing large cities of so-called declassed elements", people were deported without any charges. There have been many documented cases of cannibalism among prisoners and abuse of power among executive branch representatives.

This film is about «violence and revenge». The film was made using the alternative printing technique of cyanotype.

A documentary animation based on the diary of Tatiana Vnukevich-Bagdasaryan, who lived in a neuropsychiatric boarding school until the age of 35. The film consists of a series of short stories: "Brush", "Medicine", "Walk" and "Tea" and allows the viewer to look behind the PNI fence and see the collisions of the "little man" with the system.