Svetlana Samoshina

Directing

Svetlana Samoshina

Born

1985-11-12 (40)

Place of birth

Leninsk, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]

Known for

Directing

Credits

10 titles

Svetlana Samoshina (Russian: Светлана Самошина; born 12 November 1985; Leninsk) is a Russian director and screenwriter. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology of St. Petersburg State University with a degree in American literature, the directing course of the New York Academy of Motion Picture Arts (2011), MSHNK (2015, the laboratory of directing Bakur Bakuradze and Nikolai Khomeriki). With the diploma tape "How to live without love" (2015) participated in the competition program "Kinotavr. Short meter", won the prize of the International Film Festival in Calcutta, etc. Her next game tape, "The Sign" (2017), was also awarded prizes at Russian and foreign screenings. The short film "Haig…

Known for

The Edge of the Broken Moon poster
6.7

Fourteen-year-old Sonya unexpectedly learns that her mother lied to her about her father's death for many years, and forbade him to communicate with her daughters. Unable to forgive such a betrayal, she runs away from home. Mother and older sister Sasha find Sonya at their old dacha, where no one has visited for many years. Three women are forced to finally talk through all the problems, grievances and fears that have been so carefully hushed up for years. This begins the long journey of restoring family ties.

The Edge of the Broken Moon

2023

Трудные папы poster
NR

Katya is smart, modest and diligent, but most importantly, she is very convenient for those around her, which they take advantage of. After the death of her overprotective mother, Katya inherits her mother's late lover Andrey Nikolaevich, who has nowhere else to live, along with the house. However, this is not our heroine's main problem. The secrets that her mother hid from Katya during her life, the mortgage debt, because of which she could lose her home, and the mysterious man to whom her mother has been sending large sums of money for many years - Katya will have to figure all this out, and for the first time in her life - on her own.

Трудные папы

2026

New Russians 2 poster
NR

An anthology of five stories that can literally happen to anyone.

New Russians 2

2015

Sign poster
NR

A regular couple after years of relationship struggles to find the way to their happiness.

Sign

2017

Like Life Without Love poster
NR

Ann, an actress, comes to an audition for a role in a movie directed by the man she thinks she's in love with. Overwhelmed with emotions, she fails the audition, but manages to convince the director to go out for a walk, which then transforms his day into a pleasant evening spent in her company. The desire for love shared by the two single souls jump starts the clockworks of a miracle, which for some reason fails to develop. A classical tale of how everything that transpires with a girl happens mostly inside her head.

Like Life Without Love

2015

No artwork available
5.0

On New Year's Eve, several women who don't know each other meet in an elevator. The meeting was organized by a man with whom each of them had once been in a relationship.

Lift

2022

Behind the camera

The Edge of the Broken Moon poster
6.7

Fourteen-year-old Sonya unexpectedly learns that her mother lied to her about her father's death for many years, and forbade him to communicate with her daughters. Unable to forgive such a betrayal, she runs away from home. Mother and older sister Sasha find Sonya at their old dacha, where no one has visited for many years. Three women are forced to finally talk through all the problems, grievances and fears that have been so carefully hushed up for years. This begins the long journey of restoring family ties.

The Edge of the Broken Moon

2023

Трудные папы poster
NR

Katya is smart, modest and diligent, but most importantly, she is very convenient for those around her, which they take advantage of. After the death of her overprotective mother, Katya inherits her mother's late lover Andrey Nikolaevich, who has nowhere else to live, along with the house. However, this is not our heroine's main problem. The secrets that her mother hid from Katya during her life, the mortgage debt, because of which she could lose her home, and the mysterious man to whom her mother has been sending large sums of money for many years - Katya will have to figure all this out, and for the first time in her life - on her own.

Трудные папы

2026

New Russians 2 poster
NR

An anthology of five stories that can literally happen to anyone.

New Russians 2

2015

Sign poster
NR

A regular couple after years of relationship struggles to find the way to their happiness.

Sign

2017

Sign poster
NR

A regular couple after years of relationship struggles to find the way to their happiness.

Sign

2017

Like Life Without Love poster
NR

Ann, an actress, comes to an audition for a role in a movie directed by the man she thinks she's in love with. Overwhelmed with emotions, she fails the audition, but manages to convince the director to go out for a walk, which then transforms his day into a pleasant evening spent in her company. The desire for love shared by the two single souls jump starts the clockworks of a miracle, which for some reason fails to develop. A classical tale of how everything that transpires with a girl happens mostly inside her head.

Like Life Without Love

2015

Like Life Without Love poster
NR

Ann, an actress, comes to an audition for a role in a movie directed by the man she thinks she's in love with. Overwhelmed with emotions, she fails the audition, but manages to convince the director to go out for a walk, which then transforms his day into a pleasant evening spent in her company. The desire for love shared by the two single souls jump starts the clockworks of a miracle, which for some reason fails to develop. A classical tale of how everything that transpires with a girl happens mostly inside her head.

Like Life Without Love

2015

No artwork available
5.0

On New Year's Eve, several women who don't know each other meet in an elevator. The meeting was organized by a man with whom each of them had once been in a relationship.

Lift

2022

No artwork available
5.0

On New Year's Eve, several women who don't know each other meet in an elevator. The meeting was organized by a man with whom each of them had once been in a relationship.

Lift

2022

Hate poster
NR

Hate posts in social networks have driven 13-year-old Maya to an attempted suicide. The girl was saved, but the mother decided to find the offenders and take revenge. With the help of a friend in the security service she finds one of the instigators of the hate campaign: Katya Ryabkina. The attempted revenge forces the heroines to come to terms with their own lives.

Hate

2021