- Occupation
Producer, Director - Country
Russia
Demidova Elena
Ark
From the permafrost of the North to the sun and the sea - that's the train trip from Urengoi, Russian north city. Four and a half thousands kilometers of Russian landscapes, six days of journey. There is time to clear up all kind of questions - from existence of God to right of faithlessness, from the genesis of a word to the genesis of species.
Holy Week
Just an ordinary evening on the streets of a small village. It's a Holy Week - people clean up their yards and houses on the eve of Easter. The ambulance, as always, works in the hard schedule. "Sum of the day: three persons dead, one about to be born".Morning again. A new baby is born. His mother looks at him and listens to his first cry. And the ambulance rushes once more towards worn-down roads, and the chimes strike the song melody "I love you, Russia, our dear mother…"
Cranberry Island
This is a story about a Russian Munchausen who builds a wind turbine in his yard and puts his beehives on the roof because wild bees live in tree hollows. His wife sometimes argues, sometimes agrees with him, takes care of the children and the household, and claims that she lives in paradise. Sometimes she plays the piano with her eyes closed. The village around them is empty - almost every resident left for the city or died - so our characters live as if on an island. Their children clean the sewer system, learn English and German, and grow older before our very eyes.
Film Almanac “Fires in Russia, Summer 2010”
Summer 2010. The entire central part of Russia is covered by the fire. Around one hundred and thirty villages and towns were burned. Cities and roads have been in the smoke. The authors of these films with the volunteers sent to the epicenter of events.
From the permafrost of the North to the sun and the sea - that's the train trip from Urengoi, Russian north city. Four and a half thousands kilometers of Russian landscapes, six days of journey. There is time to clear up all kind of questions - from existence of God to right of faithlessness, from the genesis of a word to the genesis of species.
Holy Week
Just an ordinary evening on the streets of a small village. It's a Holy Week - people clean up their yards and houses on the eve of Easter. The ambulance, as always, works in the hard schedule. "Sum of the day: three persons dead, one about to be born".Morning again. A new baby is born. His mother looks at him and listens to his first cry. And the ambulance rushes once more towards worn-down roads, and the chimes strike the song melody "I love you, Russia, our dear mother…"
Cranberry Island
This is a story about a Russian Munchausen who builds a wind turbine in his yard and puts his beehives on the roof because wild bees live in tree hollows. His wife sometimes argues, sometimes agrees with him, takes care of the children and the household, and claims that she lives in paradise. Sometimes she plays the piano with her eyes closed. The village around them is empty - almost every resident left for the city or died - so our characters live as if on an island. Their children clean the sewer system, learn English and German, and grow older before our very eyes.
Film Almanac “Fires in Russia, Summer 2010”
Summer 2010. The entire central part of Russia is covered by the fire. Around one hundred and thirty villages and towns were burned. Cities and roads have been in the smoke. The authors of these films with the volunteers sent to the epicenter of events.
Men's Choice
It is a creative documentary. Through stories of concrete people we will tell about Russian shift-workers, who produce gas. When Europeans switch on gas ovens, there burns gas, produced by our characters. However this is not a film about Russian notorious company Gasprom, it’s a film about men for whom this work is the only possibility to earn decent money. In order to support their families they have to leave their families for a long time. It’s a hard work on the edge of the earth, on the Arctic Ocean cost. Our characters could have stayed home, like their neighbors. In their hometowns, in Russian province, there is no well-payed jobs or no job at all, neighbors are in depression and drink a lot. The benefit is that you live at home with your family, in normal climate. But our characters have made their choice. It’s a hard choice. And we are trying to understand them. It’s a universal story because thousands of people everywhere in the world go for shift work or work in the fields during expeditions. But this is also specific story, because we deal with Russian men in the Russian north, where there are special conditions, and a lot of humor and absurdity, like anywhere in Russia. We have three characters. First, Alex is a plumber. He does not pump gas, he pumps feces, and he's old polar wolf. He had rather typical love story – a cook who came to the north to hunt for a man, took him from his first family. Now he has to support his children from the first marriage, and children of his new wife. He is about to retire and is afraid to become as poor as his neighbors. Second, Dmitry, is thirty five. He is young and ambitious engineer, in the middle of his career. He has also worked in the north for quiet a while and he has a problem with his family. His wife is a beautiful young blonde and he suffers each time he leaves her. He is afraid to loose her. Our third character, Andrew, is starting to work in the north. Young, inexperienced, he's just began the shift work and everything is new for him – harsh working conditions, strong winds, snowstorms, life in a wagon, complicated relations in a men's pack. Andrew’s left his home for a long time for the first time in his life. His relationships with his mother and his girlfriend get complicated because of it. We observe how he is getting mature, changing from a boy into adult man. It is a multilayer story. First there is a layer of concrete human stories. Second is the space where stories take place – the north, trains and helicopters, roads, towns and villages. Third layer is our country in general, where our film takes place, TV news form the background that is connected to each of our protagonists. Finally, it is Gasprom itself, that we treat not as a monstrous company responsible for gas production and Russian money, but as a place, where normal people live and work.
It is a creative documentary. Through stories of concrete people we will tell about Russian shift-workers, who produce gas. When Europeans switch on gas ovens, there burns gas, produced by our characters. However this is not a film about Russian notorious company Gasprom, it’s a film about men for whom this work is the only possibility to earn decent money. In order to support their families they have to leave their families for a long time. It’s a hard work on the edge of the earth, on the Arctic Ocean cost. Our characters could have stayed home, like their neighbors. In their hometowns, in Russian province, there is no well-payed jobs or no job at all, neighbors are in depression and drink a lot. The benefit is that you live at home with your family, in normal climate. But our characters have made their choice. It’s a hard choice. And we are trying to understand them. It’s a universal story because thousands of people everywhere in the world go for shift work or work in the fields during expeditions. But this is also specific story, because we deal with Russian men in the Russian north, where there are special conditions, and a lot of humor and absurdity, like anywhere in Russia. We have three characters. First, Alex is a plumber. He does not pump gas, he pumps feces, and he's old polar wolf. He had rather typical love story – a cook who came to the north to hunt for a man, took him from his first family. Now he has to support his children from the first marriage, and children of his new wife. He is about to retire and is afraid to become as poor as his neighbors. Second, Dmitry, is thirty five. He is young and ambitious engineer, in the middle of his career. He has also worked in the north for quiet a while and he has a problem with his family. His wife is a beautiful young blonde and he suffers each time he leaves her. He is afraid to loose her. Our third character, Andrew, is starting to work in the north. Young, inexperienced, he's just began the shift work and everything is new for him – harsh working conditions, strong winds, snowstorms, life in a wagon, complicated relations in a men's pack. Andrew’s left his home for a long time for the first time in his life. His relationships with his mother and his girlfriend get complicated because of it. We observe how he is getting mature, changing from a boy into adult man. It is a multilayer story. First there is a layer of concrete human stories. Second is the space where stories take place – the north, trains and helicopters, roads, towns and villages. Third layer is our country in general, where our film takes place, TV news form the background that is connected to each of our protagonists. Finally, it is Gasprom itself, that we treat not as a monstrous company responsible for gas production and Russian money, but as a place, where normal people live and work.
Elena Demidova is Russian film director, scriptwriter and producer. She was born in Russia. She graduated from Moscow State Technical University in 1987 and Voronezh State University (The Faculty of History) in 1997. Director’s education: film school “Internews”, Moscow. Her films are broadcasted on number of TV channels and participate in different International Film Festivals. Participant of Dragon Forum, Baltic Forum, Below Zero Forum, Hot Docs Forum and other International documentary programs and events.
Live water, 2006 International festival of television programs and films “The Golden Drum”, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, 2006, Grand prixHolly Week, 2006. Prize of Pol Hlebnikovs Fond Ark, 2007International Film Festival KINOTEATR.DOC, 2007, Moscow, Russia, prise"Message To Man" International Documentary, Short and Animated Films Festival, 2008, St. Petersburg, Russia, in competitionInternational Film festival Festival “Shakens stars”, 2007, Almaty, Kazahstan, prise The multiplication table, 2007 Short Film Competition "All human beings are free and equal", Goethe-Institute and Future and Remembrance Fund, 2007, priseInternational Film Festival KINOTEATR.DOC, 2008, Moscow, Russia, in competition. Human Rights Documentary Film Festivals DOCUDAYS, Kiev, Ukraine, 2008, diplomInternational documentary film festival “Flahertiana”, Perm, Russia, in competition. Its time to go home, 2008 The international festival of films about human rights “Stalker”, Moscow, Russia, 2008, official program XVIII International Zolotoy Vityaz Film forum, Lipeck, Rossia, 2009, diplom, Internacional filmfestival war cinema n.a. Ozerov, Russia, 2009, diplomMohicans, 2008Internacional film festival "Saratov sufferings", Saratov, Russia, 2009, Special prizeHuman Rights Documentary Film Festivals DOCUDAYS, Kiev, Ukraine, 2010, in competition Cranberry Island, 2010"Message To Man" International Documentary, Short and Animated Films Festival, 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia, Special Prize Open Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock”, 2010, Anapa, diplomInternational Documentary Filmfestival “Artdokfest”, Moscow, Russia, 2010, in competitionInternational Women's Film Festival "KIN", Yerevan, Armenian, 2010, in competitionInternational Festival of Visual Culture “World Film”, Estonia, Tartu, 2011, in programGolden Apricot IFF, Yerevan, 2011, in competitionMoscow International Film Festival, Moscow, 2011, Russian Film ProgramLesha, 2011"Message To Man" International Documentary, Short and Animated Films Festival, 2011, St. Petersburg, DiplomaInternational Festival of Independent Film "2morrow/Zavtra", 2011, Moscow, in competitionThe international festival of films about human rights “Stalker”, Moscow, 2011, PriseHuman Rights Documentary Film Festivals DOCUDAYS, Kiev, Ukraine, 2012, priseRussian Ecology film festival "Meridian of Hope", St. Petersburg. In 2012. The prize for Best DirectorMoscow International Film Festival, Moscow, 2011, the Russian programRussian Film Festival "Window to Europe", Vyborg, 2012, in competitionXX Russian Film Festival "Window to Europe", Vyborg, Russia, 2012, diplomaTRANZIT Documentary Film Festival, Poznan, Poland, 2012Minsk International Film Festival “Listapad”, Minsk, Republic of Belarus, 2012, in programAlmanac “Fires in Russia, summer 2010”, 2011.International Documentary Filmfestival "Artdokfest", 2011, Moscow, Russia, in programJihlava International Documentary Film Festival, 2011, Czech Republic, in competitionSasha, Lena and Iron Dragon, 2012International Documentary Filmfestival “Artdokfest”, Moscow, Russia, 2012, in competition
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Live water, 2006 - grand prize of International festival of television programs and films The Golden Drum, of Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, September, 2006.
Holly Week, 2006. Prize of Paul Hlebnikovs Fond.
Ark, 2007 prize of Film Festival KINOTEATR.DOC, February 2007, Russia. "Message To Man" International Documentary, Short and Animated Films Festival, June 2008, St. Petersburg, in competition. Prize of Almaty International Festival Shakens stars, September 2007, Kazahstan.
The multiplication table, 2007 3rd prize of Short Film Competition "All human beings are free and equal", was organized Goethe-Institute and Future and Remembrance Fund, September 2007. KINOTEATR.DOC Film Festival, 2008, Russia, in competition. Human Rights Documentary Films Days, Kiev, Ukraine, 2008, in competition, diploma, International documentary film festival Flahertiana, in competition.
Its time to go home, 2008 - The international festival of films about human rights Stalker, Moscow, 2008, official program. XVIII International Zolotoy Vityaz Film forum, Lipetsk, Russia, 2009, diploma, International film festival war cinema n.a. Ozerov, Russia, 2009, diploma.
Mohicans, 2008, 39 min - International film festival "Saratov sufferings", Saratov, Russia, 2009, in competition, Special prize, Human Rights Documentary Films Days, Kiev, Ukraine, 2010, in competition.
Cranberry Island, 2010, 65 min. "Message To Man" International Documentary, Short and Animated Films Festival, 2010, St. Petersburg, Special Prize, Open Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock”, 2010, Anapa, in competition, diplom.
International Documentary Film festival “Artdokfest”, Moscow, Russia, 2010, in competition.
International Women's Film Festival "KIN", Yerevan, Armenian, 2010, in competition.
International Festival of Visual Culture “World Film”, Estonia, Tartu, 2011, in program
Golden Apricot IFF, Yerevan, 2011, in competition.
Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow, 2011, Russian Film Program.
Lesha, 2011
"Message To Man" International Documentary, Short and Animated Films Festival, 2010, St. Petersburg, diploma.
The international festival of films about human rights Stalker, Moscow, 2011, prize.
Human Rights Documentary Film Festivals DOCUDAYS, Kiev, Ukraine, 2012, prize.
XX Russian Film Festival "Window to Europe", Vyborg, Russia, 2012, diploma.
Almanac “Fires in Russia, summer 2010”, 2011.
International Documentary Film festival "Artdokfest", 2011, Moscow, Russia, in program.
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, 2011, Czech Republic, in competition.