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A CIRCLE

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  • year : 2022
  • country : UK, Russia
  • timing : 24:58'
  • genre : fiction film
  • producer : Maria Lukavskaya

written by Maria Lukavskaya
produced by Polina Kazartseva
DoP Maksim Mikhanyuk
music by Gedminte Samsonaite
sound by Stanislav Paushev
editor Ekaterina Kuchumova
production designer Ekaterina Miller
cast: Varvara Pavlova, Taisia Kotova, Eduard Kalanchuk

During famine in the Sieged Leningrad the mother of two children has no food left to sustain both of them. She has to make a choice.

  • Moscow International Film Festival "8 Women" (2022, Russia, Moscow)
  • Open Russian Film Festival of Patriotic Cinema "Malaya Zemlya", Special Jury Diploma (2022, Russia, Novorossiysk)
  • International Film Forum "Zolotoy Vityaz" (Golden Knight) (2022, Russia, Sevastopol)
  • Pune Short Film Festival (2022, India, Pune)
  • Sol International Film Festival, Best Actress Award (2022, Spain, Torrevieja)
  • Festival of New Cinema (2022, Russia, Volgograd)
  • International Film Festival «East&West. Classics and Avant Garde» (2022, Russia, Orenburg)
  • Festival Internacional de Cinema em Balneário Camboriú, The Grand Prix (2022, Brazil, Balneário Camboriú)
  • Lanzarote International Film Festival (2022, Spain, Lanzarote)
  • Metricamento Corto International Short Film festival, Winner Best First Film (2022, Italy, Veneto CastelFranco)
  • International Film Festival of Student Films PiterKit (2022, Russia, Saint Petersburg)
  • International Student Film and Video Festival of Beijing Film Academy, Best Fiction Film, Outstanding Award (2022, China, Beijing)
  • VGIK International Film Festival (2022, Russia, Moscow)
  • Northern Character International Film Festival (2022, Russia, Murmansk)
  • Golden Knight Malta International Film Festival (2022, Malta, Valetta)
  • Asti International Film Festival, Honorable mention (2022, Italy, Asti)
  • International Festival "Nevsky Blagovest", Special Diploma (2022, Russia, St. Petersburg)
  • Bastau International Film Festival (2022, Kazakhstan, Almaty)
  • Radonezh International Festival of Films and TV programs (2022, Russia, Moscow)
  • Golden Knight Malta International Short Film Festival (2022, Malta, Marsa)
  • Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival, Best student film (2022, India, Mumbai)
  • Shanghai International Short Week, Finalist (2022, China, Shanghai)
  • Russian Elementary Cinema [REC] (2022, Russia, Saint Petersburg)
  • Sedicicorto Forlì International film festival (2022, Italy, Forli)
  • Ouchy Film Awards (2023, Switzeralnd, Lausanne)
  • International Women Filmmakers Festival (2023, Turkey, İzmir)
  • Asia International Film Week (2023, Japan, Tokyo)
  • Prokuplje Film Festival ProFiFest (2023, Serbia, Prokuplje)
  • International film festival MosFilmFest, Finalist (2023, Russia, Moscow)
  • Crossroads International Short Film Festival, Semifinalist (2023, Turkey, İstanbul)
  • Golden Tower International Film Festival (2023, Russia, Ingushetia)
  • International Film Festival “Victory Day” (2024, Russia, Moscow)


Director’s statement

I was deeply affected by the diaries of mothers and children from the Sieged Leningrad and felt this story should be told.


ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:

Mariya graduated from London Film School. Prior to it, she studied Social Psychology at London School of Economics with the focus on ethnic conflicts and racism.
Before this Mariya worked as a commercial development manager in corporations like MasterCard and TripAdvisor.
In parallel to this she has been a founder to several small charitable funds to support sick children from low income families in Eastern Europe.


FILMOGRAPHY:

2022 - "A Circle", short student film \ debut

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2014, Russia, 35' fiction film producer Mikhail Romanovskiy
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2014, Russia, 20' documentary producer Kirsten Gaynet
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2014, Russia, 16:07' fiction film producer Yury Sukhodolskiy
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2014, Russia, 42:52' documentary producer Olga Arlauskas
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2015, Russia, 90:02' fiction film producer Arseniy Gonchukov
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2015, Russia, 11:25' fiction film producer Efgraph Sorokin
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2015, Russia, 24:16' fiction film producer Dmitry Golubov
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2015, Russia, 24:42' fiction film producer Nikita Ordynskiy
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2015, Russia, 16:22' fiction film producer Anna Kott
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2015, Russia, 88:43’' fiction film producer Alexandr Kott
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2015, Russia, France, 51:28' documentary producer Egor Klimovich
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2015, Russia, 61:03' documentary producer Mariya Linder,Yakov Zakhvatkin
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2015, Russia, 12:22' documentary producer Ilya Zheltyakov
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2015, Russia, 09:00' fiction film producer Kirill Kosolapov
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2015, Russia, 25:02' documentary producer Kirill Burdov
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2015, Russia, 05:05' fiction film producer Kristina Rabotenko
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2015, Russia, 09:59' documentary producer Yuriy Kalyuzhniy
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2015, Russia, 14:30' fiction film producer Maxim Dashkin
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2015, Singapore, Russia, 09:26' fiction film producer Maxim Dashkin
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2015, USA, 53:03' documentary producer Helga Landauer
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2015, Russia, 65:08 ' documentary producer Konstantin Smirnov
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2015, Belarus, 14:59' fiction film producer Mitry Semenov-Aleynikov
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2015, Italy, 17:37' fiction film producer Alina Gurinova
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2016, Russia, 16:01' fiction film producer Ekaterina Stashevskaya
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2016, Russia, 23:27' fiction film producer Andrey Egorov
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2016, Russia, 10:26' fiction film producer Yuriy Kalyuzhniy
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2016, Russia, 90' documentary producer Olga Arlauskas,Svetlana Gorlo
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2016, Russia, 23:40' fiction film producer Nina Vedmitskaya
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2016, Russia, 16:28 ' fiction film producer Elena Piskareva
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2016, Russia, 91:09' fiction film producer Vladimir Rudak
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2016, Russia, 15:58' fiction film producer Andrey Bulatov
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2016, Russia, 30:00' documentary producer Yuliya Kiselyova
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2016, Russia, 22:02' fiction film producer Alena Alenkina
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2016, Russia, 29:59' fiction film producer Yuliya Dmitriyeva
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2016, Russia, 26:59' fiction film producer Petr Levchenko
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2016, Russia, 15:22' documentary producer Karina Vilenkina
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2016, Russia, 93:06' documentary producer Natalia Gugueva
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2016, Russia, 29:47' fiction film producer Anna Simakova
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2016, Russia, 13:55’' fiction film producer Pavel Inin
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2016, Russia, 13:09' fiction film producer Evgeniya Duplyakina
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2016, Russia, 26:00' fiction film producer Veniamin Tronin
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2016, Russia, 22:29' documentary producer Nikita Tikhonov-Rau,Olga Arlauskas
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2016, Russia, 03:27 ' fiction film producer Vladimir Tsarenko
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2016, Russia, Greece, 99:39' documentary producer Mark Visioner
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2016, Russia, 24:20' fiction film producer Alexandra Sokolovskaya
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2016, Russia, 29:55' fiction film producer Tatiana Ra
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2016, Russia, 04:59' fashion fiction film producer Jana Nedzvetkaya
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2016, Russia, 28:00' fiction film producer Denis Lafanov
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2016, Italy, 13:09' fiction film producer Domenico Modafferi
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2016, Italy, UK, 29:08' documentary producer Gloria Aura Bortolini
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2016, Georgia, 08:00' fiction film producer Khukhua Tornike
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2016, Italy, 23:45' fiction film producer Adelmo Togliani
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2016, Russia, 109’' documentary producer Daniil Bondar
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2016, Russia, 21:03' fiction film producer Olga Shtol
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2016, Russia, Hungary, Belarus, 70:51' fiction film producer Lika Alekseeva
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2016, Russia, 10:30' fiction film producer Alexander Saltykov,Darya Homyakova
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2016, Russia, 13:14' fiction film producer Sasha Yastrebova
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2016, Russia, Spain, 50:07' documentary producer Algis Arlauskas
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2016, Russia, 96:58' fiction film producer Sergey Solovyov
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2016, Russia, 09:00' fiction film producer Julia Saponova
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2016, Russia, 22:36’' fiction film producer Konstantin Abaev
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2016, Russia, 14:15' fiction film producer Anastasiya Marsakova
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2016, Belarus, 23:22' fiction film producer Alexander Vysokovskiy
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2016, Russia, 29:59' fiction film producer Nika Barabash,Andreas Costandakes
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2016, Russia, 91:14' fiction film producer Kseniya Baskakova
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2016, Russia, 26:59' fiction film producer Evgeniy Puzyrevskiy
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2016, Russia, 9:50' fiction film producer Tatiana Astapova
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2016, Russia, UK, 27:20' fiction film producer Alexander Mercury
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2016, Russia, 08:14' fiction film producer Pavel Ivanov
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2016, Russia, 22:24' fiction film producer Kirill Vasiliev
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2016, Russia, 21:14' fiction film producer Max Kubrinskiy
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2016, Russia, 59:45' documentary producer Maxim Kobzev
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2016, Russia, 14:41' fiction film producer Yuri Alessin
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2016, Belarus, 28:31' fiction film producer Victor Krasovskiy
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2016, Russia, 08:03' fiction film producer Olga Dibtseva
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2016, Russia, 83:00’' fiction film producer Boris Gouts
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2016, Russia, 13:36' documentary producer Zlata Oronova
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2016, Italy, 14:25' fiction film producer Antonin Bobo
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2017, Kazakhstan, 23:00' fiction film producer Aigul Axambiyeva
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2017, Russia, 30:58' fiction film producer Kseniya Tischenko
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2017, Russia, 17:06' fiction film producer Denis Kudryavtsev
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2017, Russia, 85:28' documentary producer Yulia Kiseleva
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2017, Russia, 17:21' fiction film producer Vakhtang Khubutia
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2017, Russia, 09:30' fiction film producer Alexey Puchkovskiy
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2017, Russia, 79:38' fiction film producer Oleg Ageychev
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2017, Russia, 08:36' fiction film producer Victor Derebenko
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2017, Russia, 27' fiction film producer Sidorov-Frantsuzov
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2017, Russia, 25' fiction film producer Svetlana Sukhanova
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2017, Russia, India, 21:18' documentary producer Maria Khristoforova
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2017, Russia, 28:00' fiction film producer Nikolay Kotyash
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2017, Russia, 25:20' fiction film producer Sergey Pozdnyakov
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2017, Russia, Latvia, 70:51' documentary producer Darya Khrenova
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2017, Russia, 32:56' fiction film producer Narkas Iskandarova
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2017, Russia, 30' fiction film producer Nastya Antonova
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2017, Russia, 50:43' documentary producer Dmitry Zavilgelskiy
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2017, Russia, 10:35' fiction film producer Egor Voronin
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2017, Russia, 28:03' documentary producer Nikita Tikhonov-Rau
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2017, Russia, 25:01' fiction film producer Evgeniy Nikitin
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2017, Russia, 99' fiction film producer Alexander Kasatkin
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2017, Russia, 30:48 / 54:58' documentary producer Yulia Kiseleva
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