Besame Mucho (12+)
Russia, 2006, colour, 28 min.
Director: Alina Rudnitskaya
Director: Alina Rudnitskaya
Tikhvin Amateur Female Choir is rehearsing “Aida”. In the daytime, these women work in the shop, clean, load boxes, fight illnesses and in the evening, they come to a different world. Their lives are now full of dreams and expectations of something bigger and brighter than their everyday life, which is sometimes very tough. A short visit of a long-expected Italian team they were rehearsing for is both a party and a touchstone: they dreams were only dreams. Full of sorrow and humour this film presents rural life as it is in Russia today.
AWARDS
National prize ‘Laurel’ for the best documentary film, Russia, 2007; Jury Award, IFF Documentamadrid, Madrid, Spain, 2007; Second prize “Silver boat”, IFF “Window to Europe”, Vyborg, Russia, 2007.
Alina Rudnitskaya
Alina Rudnitskaya
was born in 1976. A graduate of St. Petersburg University for Arts and Culture, Department of Film Directing (2001), she started her career in the St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. In 2002, Alina filmed “Communal Residence”, film about communal flats of Saint Petersburg, for the project “Petersburg 300” dedicated to city’s anniversary. Rudnitskaya's films always have a characteristic original perspective; she is interested in studying gender relationships, especially from the point of view of women.
FILMOGRAPHY
The Letter, 2001; Communal Residence, 2002; Vishnevskaya and Rostropovich, 2003; Ryazanov, 2003; Amazons, 2003; Rural Lessons, 2004; Civil Status, 2005; Besame Mucho, 2006; Vixen Academy: How To Be a Bitch, 2007; At the Civil Office, 2011; I Will Forget This Day, 2011; How To Find a Man, 2013; Blood, 2013; The Bridges of Saraevo , 2014; Science and Life, 2015; Event, 2015.
Russia, 2006, colour, 28 min.
Director: Alina Rudnitskaya
Director: Alina Rudnitskaya
Tikhvin Amateur Female Choir is rehearsing “Aida”. In the daytime, these women work in the shop, clean, load boxes, fight illnesses and in the evening, they come to a different world. Their lives are now full of dreams and expectations of something bigger and brighter than their everyday life, which is sometimes very tough. A short visit of a long-expected Italian team they were rehearsing for is both a party and a touchstone: they dreams were only dreams. Full of sorrow and humour this film presents rural life as it is in Russia today.
AWARDS
National prize ‘Laurel’ for the best documentary film, Russia, 2007; Jury Award, IFF Documentamadrid, Madrid, Spain, 2007; Second prize “Silver boat”, IFF “Window to Europe”, Vyborg, Russia, 2007.