Daria Likhaya

Birth : 1994-03-26, Priozersk, Leningradskaya oblast, Russia

History

Daria Likhaya (b. 1994, Priozersk) is a director. She graduated from the Polytechnic University and worked as a chief engineer at a chemical factory, a seller in a souvenir shop, a waiter in a wine bar. In 2019, she won a grant to study at the DocDocDoc International School of Documentary Photography. Since 2020, she has been studying at the non-fiction film laboratory at the Moscow School of New Cinema.

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Movies

Your Room, Volchok

Director

Volchok, firstly, it is a diminutive of the word Wolf, secondly, this is a toy that, during recovery, maintains the performance of one support. A rapidly spinning top does not fall due to the gyroscopic effect, but when the rotation speed becomes insufficient, the top loses its spin and falls. Sasha, 22 years old, lives usual life in a million-plus city in southern Russia. In the space of her memory, images of childhood and life with her father and a wild wolf in the same apartment arise: once the father took away little Sasha from her drinking mother, and soon a real wild wolf settled in their new apartment.

27A

Director

A documentary journey-essay about memory and home. The film's director Daria Likhaya returns to her childhood home and her trip is followed by veracious stories. A spotted dress, a KAMAZ left in a courtyard, a woman's face in the window—every detail becomes a source of memories. The impressions of strangers are intertwined and mixed, the border between the virtual and the real becomes blurred.