Nikolay Michaylov
История
Nikolay Michaylov is a filmmaker, director and cinematographer.
Director of Photography
Mara, a young creative writing professor, is struggling with problems in her marriage to an experimental musician. One day, Matt, a charismatic, free-spirited author from her past, wanders onto her university campus. Bonded by their shared interests, the two gradually become closer. When Mara’s husband unexpectedly cancels plans to drive her to an out-of-town conference, Matt accompanies Mara on the trip instead. Along the way, the tension surrounding their undefined relationship slowly grows.
Cinematography
Filmmaker Stephen Hosier takes a journey with Richard Csanyi, his childhood friend, as he investigates the life and death of his twin brother Attila, who was found dead on a rooftop in 2020.
Cinematography
Having fled Colombia after her husband was murdered, an environmental lawyer rebuilds her life in Toronto with her tempestuous daughter, only to risk losing everything when her traumatic past re-surfaces.
Additional Photography
The speculative tale of Canadian outsider musician Lewis and the belated discovery of his 1983 album "L'Amour". A love story composed in myth and song.
Director of Photography
Anne hasn't been the same since the jump. While skydiving for her best friend Sarah's bachelorette party, the 27-year-old felt focused, free, above it all. Back on the ground, the pressures of her daily life threaten to overwhelm her.
Cinematography
An overworked lawyer attempts to care for his partner while she descends into a climate crisis inspired, anxiety fuelled manic episode.
Cinematography
Kabul, Afghanistan. Pari, an in-house tailor, must find the means to purchase her prescription glasses in order to save her job.
Director of Photography
A family tries to schedule the medically assisted death of a loved one.
Director
Using portraits of people and landscapes, Sofia is a short documentary that examines the social reality of living in Bulgaria.
Director of Photography
A surrealist comedy about sisters living in isolation on their farmland, who harvest and smoke glitter that gives them super strength.
Director of Photography
Isolde is a support caseworker trainee working in Toronto. She’s still adjusting to the protocols and challenges of her job when she’s assigned to Eric, a man charged with theft and awaiting a court hearing.
Director of Photography
What begins as an enquiry on things that mean other things itself becomes a thing that means other things, too. And whatever exactly that thing is, the latest by one of Canada’s most ingenious auteurs is another astounding feat of cerebral and cinephilic dexterity.
Director of Photography
Recent immigrants to Canada, working on scaffolding break the routine of their job by observing the people in the the neighbourhood from a unique, precarious and ephemeral vantage point.
Director of Photography
Maya is an unhappy young woman, fed up with her monotonous job, filthy apartment, and the responsibilities of caring for her drug-addicted mother. One night she comes across Philip, a man of wealth, and the next morning wakes up alone in his large suburban home. With Philip nowhere in sight, Maya attempts to gain possession of the house.
Screenplay
After inadvertently implicating his friend in a crime, a privileged young man employs sex and violence as coping mechanisms.
Director
After inadvertently implicating his friend in a crime, a privileged young man employs sex and violence as coping mechanisms.
Cinematography
A director pressures an actress into full nudity on the morning of her first sex scene.
Director of Photography
Follows a middle-aged married man who finds his only outlet is online gaming.
Director of Photography
Cutaway portrays a phase in the life of a single young man as he works as a labourer, pursues relationships with women, and comes to terms with a life changing event. Told through close details of hands and objects, this film intimately portrays uncertainty and loss.
Director of Photography
A young immigrant single mother dealing with financial insecurity finds it difficult to live up to her son’s expectations of motherhood. On a road trip gone off course, they are forced to confront their strained relationship with each other when they are locked out of their car and stranded in the middle of the Florida Everglades.
Director of Photography
Set to the backdrop of her suburban town’s evacuation, thirteen-year old Nora enlists the help of the boy next door to search for her apathetic big sister, who has snuck out to party with an older boy with questionable intentions.