Director of Photography
Sanyok is an ordinary teacher in a school for difficult teenagers. Children study in it, to whom life has left almost no chance. Their parents are most often drug addicts and alcoholics. In their 10-15 years, these children have seen many terrible things. Fighting with a tough bureaucratic system, Sanyok builds special, trusting relationships with them. So close that sometimes it seems like he is one of them. The fates of the guys develop in different ways, but even if they manage to save the life of at least one, Sanya will consider that he did not live his life in vain.
Director of Photography
The Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station is the most powerful in Russia and the sixth most powerful in the world. It was built during the Soviet Union, from 1963 to 1978 on the Yenisei River in Siberia. In 2009, one of the world's largest man-made disasters occurred at the hydroelectric power station, which claimed the lives of 75 people. It took five years and 40 billion rubles to resume operation of the station. And although the exact cause of the accident has not yet been established, the engineers accused of the accident have been jailed. The accident showed that the Soviet legacy is still firmly in the minds of people, many of whom live in the past and are afraid of the future. The wear and tear of equipment, the backwardness of technology, corruption, a corrupt court, and propaganda based on the cult of "back to the USSR" portend new man-made disasters…
Director of Photography
Documentary following a mobile blood donation team travelling through rural Russia, where people sell their blood to make ends meet.
