Natalya Meshchaninova
Still: My Little Nighttime SecretNatalya MESHCHANINOVA (1982, Russia) is a director and screenwriter. She graduated from Kuban State University, where she specialised in television and film directing. She worked for a TV station in Krasnodar for a period of time. After her documentary debut, Herbarium (2007), she decided to move to Moscow to pursue her career in filmmaking further. Her feature debut, The Hope Factory, had its world premiere at IFFR in 2014. Since then, she has continued to make feature films. Core of the World (2018) won the Grand Prize at the Kinotavr Film Festival in Sochi. She was awarded a grant from Hubert Bals Fund for script and project development in 2021, and the result is her most recent film My Little Nighttime Secret (2023).
Filmography
(selection) Herbarium (2007, doc), Good Intentions (2008, short doc), School (2010, TV series), The Hope Factory (2014), Another Year (2014), The Red Band Society (2015, TV series), Anna’s War (2018), Core of the World (2018), Shtorm/Storm (2019, TV series), My Mom’s Penguins (2021, TV series), Alyssa (2022, TV series), My Little Nighttime Secret (2023)
Natalya Meshchaninova op IFFR
Another Year
107'
Rusland
IFFR 2014
The Hope Factory
104'
Rusland
IFFR 2014
Anna's War
75'
Rusland
IFFR 2018
Arrhythmia
117'
Rusland
IFFR 2018
Core of the World
Compassie en wreedheid liggen dicht bij elkaar in het leven van een getroebleerde dierenarts op het afgelegen Russische platteland.
124'
Rusland
IFFR 2019
My Little Nighttime Secret
De veertienjarige Mira is een nacht uit logeren, maar draagt een vreselijk geheim met zich mee.
90'
Rusland
IFFR 2023