Kantemir Balagov
Birth : 1991-07-28, Nalchik, USSR (Russia)
History
Kantemir was born in Nalchik, Russia, in a family, unrelated to cinematography. Since childhood, Kantemir watched a lot of mainstream movies, and at the age of 18 began to create his own small videos. Then, together with friends in Nalchik, he shot an Internet series with episodes of 10 minutes each. He didn't originally plan to pursue a career of a filmmaker, but decided to apply for the cinema workshop, led by Alexander Sokurov at the Kabardino-Balkarian University. During his studies he made several fiction and documentary films. Some of Balagov’s short films were shown at the 67th Locarno Film Festival. In 2017, he made his debut as a director with the feature film Closeness in the program Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival, where he received the prize FIPRESCI. In 2019, Balagov received the Cannes Best Director Award and FIPRESCI prize for the film Beanpole, which was presented in the program Un Certain Regard.
Writer
Set in post-WWII Leningrad as two female soldiers return from war and attempt to rebuild their lives in the ravaged city.
Director
Set in post-WWII Leningrad as two female soldiers return from war and attempt to rebuild their lives in the ravaged city.
Screenplay
Sofichka returns to her native Abkhaz village in Georgia after twenty years of absence. Seeing again home and meeting with villagers take her to memory lane and all Sofichka’s life passes before her eyes: her wedding with Rufus, betrayal of the neighbour Nuri, difficult years of war, exile in Siberia. But in spite of everything, in spite of all the tough experiences, Sofichka continues to believe in people and in life, staying true to the memory of her husband who died young.
Assistant Director of Photography
A young man was born in a small Russian city, but now lives in the Caucasus, in a foreign culture. He works as a mountain guide and enjoys life, but remains a stranger among the people he lives with. He will have to leave his carelessness behind and grow up.
Editor
1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from its fellow tribesmen.
Screenplay
1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from its fellow tribesmen.
Director
1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from its fellow tribesmen.
Assistant Director of Photography
About a young scientist from Syria who moves to Russia with his sister. The scientist suffers from a rare disease - "insensibility."
Director of Photography
A girl named Adiyah runs from her parents' house to a big city for a better life.
Diploma work of the Kabardino-Balkar State University (Alexander Sokurov's workshop)
Screenplay
The story of Dante, a graduate of the philological faculty who works on the railroad, pins the tracks to the railroad ties with a terrible noise, and then falls in love with a deaf-mute girl.
Director of Photography
The story of Dante, a graduate of the philological faculty who works on the railroad, pins the tracks to the railroad ties with a terrible noise, and then falls in love with a deaf-mute girl.
Director
The story of Dante, a graduate of the philological faculty who works on the railroad, pins the tracks to the railroad ties with a terrible noise, and then falls in love with a deaf-mute girl.
Director of Photography
Portrait of a young man with a difficult fate. Despite the inherent mental illness, the film's hero earns money for his drinking mother and sister.
Director
Portrait of a young man with a difficult fate. Despite the inherent mental illness, the film's hero earns money for his drinking mother and sister.
Cinematography
A story of teenager who's trying to find himself
Screenplay
A story of teenager who's trying to find himself
Director
A story of teenager who's trying to find himself
Colorist
Academic work of 4th courses of the Kabardino-Balkar State University (Alexander Sokurov's workshop).
Assistant Director of Photography
Academic work of 4th courses of training of Kabardino-Balkarian State University (Alexander Sokurov's workshop)
Academic work of 4th courses of training of Kabardino-Balkarian State University (Alexander Sokurov's workshop)
Director of Photography
A girl who is serving time in a prison camp is visited by a young man, who is the reason for her being in the camp.
Assistant Director of Photography
A teenage girl from a dysfunctional family, whose parents keep an inexpensive roadside cafe, runs away from home. "It's not I who left them, they left me," - so the girl explains her flight.
Assistant Director
About a young guy who lives in the pre-war town with his sick mother. At night, he works at the bakery. Once a colleague asked to look after her daughter. After spending the whole day with the girl, the young man is going to return her to his parents, but finds them dead.
Colorist
Story from the life of a young Chechen family, where the woman lives not “by the rules”.
Cinematography
Academic work of 4th year of training at Kabardino-Balkar State University (Alexander Sokurov's workshop)
Screenplay
It tells the story of a complex relationship between father and son, in which the son imbues his father with qualities he doesn’t actually possess
Director
It tells the story of a complex relationship between father and son, in which the son imbues his father with qualities he doesn’t actually possess
