Yulia Bobkova

Directing

Yulia Bobkova

Place of birth

Krasnodar, Russia

Known for

Directing

Credits

14 titles

Born in 1995 in Krasnodar, Russia. In 2013 she entered the All-Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK) (workshop of S. Miroshnichenko and S. Muzychenko), the faculty of documentary films where she studies up to now. At present, she is actively shooting documentaries depicting the fates of ordinary and unique people. The short film NO SUTURES was her first festival piece; THE LAST WALTZ is her feature documentary debut.

Known for

The Last Waltz poster
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This film is about Oleg Karavaichuk, eccentric musical genius and famous St. Petersburg composer, who takes his final stroll through Komarovo, a bay-side summer community just outside St. Petersburg where he spent his whole life and wrote most of his works. His final piece, “The Komarovo Waltz”, unveiled here for the very first time, was written as a tribute to the place. The film is the reclusive composer’s eulogy to the community. It also serves as Karavoichuk’s farewell to audience as well as his last address and reminder of things that are truly important – love for your fellow man and virgin nature.

The Last Waltz

2017

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A documentary almanac consisting of 5 short stories revealing the wonderful world of Sakhalin Island and its inhabitants. The film tells human stories through the eyes of young filmmakers who visited the island for the first time. The main characters of the novels are representatives of different professions. The documentary filmmakers lived for several days in a fishing camp remote from settlements, captured the peculiarities of oil production in the Okhinsky district, visited Tyuleniy Island, got acquainted with the dynasty of miners in Uglegorsk and explored the village of Douai, from there the settlement of the island began.

On the Edge

2016

Vladimir Central poster
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A portrait of a prison through whose walls a record number of politicians, revolutionaries, scientists, philosophers and soldiers passed. The heroes of the film are employees, prisoners and veterans of the Federal Penitentiary Service who once supervised Stalin's son Vasily, Lidia Ruslanova, the authorities of the criminal world.

Vladimir Central

2023

Ангельский чин poster
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Open the door to a world nearly 500 years old! This documentary takes viewers to the Novodevichy Convent—one of Russia's most famous and enigmatic monasteries, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Behind its majestic walls lies not only the country's great history but also the living, poignant stories of women who dedicated themselves to its service.

Ангельский чин

2026

Stanislavski: Lust for Life poster
1.0

A story about Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski, a twentieth-century theatre genius. Owing to his powerful extraordinary talent he managed to stay a true artist and a free spirit within the harsh Soviet system. In the film contemporary theater and film directors (Kirill Serebrennikov, Katie Mitchell, Lev Dodin and others) show how Stanislavski's method affects their everyday work. Each of the directors finds his or her own reflection in the mirror of his genius. In search of an answer to the question whether modern theatre really needs Stanislavski they discover that art lacks its most essential part – the human being.

Stanislavski: Lust for Life

2021

Victim Status poster
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Through the story of the traumas and scars of seven heroines, the film deals with the psychological model that people today live in. Each of us sooner or later found ourselves in the triangle: victim-aggressor-savior, and we did not always manage to see it and stop playing the role of the function in the destructive schema.

Victim Status

2018

Behind the camera

The Last Waltz poster
NR

This film is about Oleg Karavaichuk, eccentric musical genius and famous St. Petersburg composer, who takes his final stroll through Komarovo, a bay-side summer community just outside St. Petersburg where he spent his whole life and wrote most of his works. His final piece, “The Komarovo Waltz”, unveiled here for the very first time, was written as a tribute to the place. The film is the reclusive composer’s eulogy to the community. It also serves as Karavoichuk’s farewell to audience as well as his last address and reminder of things that are truly important – love for your fellow man and virgin nature.

The Last Waltz

2017

No artwork available
NR

A documentary almanac consisting of 5 short stories revealing the wonderful world of Sakhalin Island and its inhabitants. The film tells human stories through the eyes of young filmmakers who visited the island for the first time. The main characters of the novels are representatives of different professions. The documentary filmmakers lived for several days in a fishing camp remote from settlements, captured the peculiarities of oil production in the Okhinsky district, visited Tyuleniy Island, got acquainted with the dynasty of miners in Uglegorsk and explored the village of Douai, from there the settlement of the island began.

On the Edge

2016

Vladimir Central poster
NR

A portrait of a prison through whose walls a record number of politicians, revolutionaries, scientists, philosophers and soldiers passed. The heroes of the film are employees, prisoners and veterans of the Federal Penitentiary Service who once supervised Stalin's son Vasily, Lidia Ruslanova, the authorities of the criminal world.

Vladimir Central

2023

Ангельский чин poster
NR

Open the door to a world nearly 500 years old! This documentary takes viewers to the Novodevichy Convent—one of Russia's most famous and enigmatic monasteries, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Behind its majestic walls lies not only the country's great history but also the living, poignant stories of women who dedicated themselves to its service.

Ангельский чин

2026

Stanislavski: Lust for Life poster
1.0

A story about Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski, a twentieth-century theatre genius. Owing to his powerful extraordinary talent he managed to stay a true artist and a free spirit within the harsh Soviet system. In the film contemporary theater and film directors (Kirill Serebrennikov, Katie Mitchell, Lev Dodin and others) show how Stanislavski's method affects their everyday work. Each of the directors finds his or her own reflection in the mirror of his genius. In search of an answer to the question whether modern theatre really needs Stanislavski they discover that art lacks its most essential part – the human being.

Stanislavski: Lust for Life

2021

Stanislavski: Lust for Life poster
1.0

A story about Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski, a twentieth-century theatre genius. Owing to his powerful extraordinary talent he managed to stay a true artist and a free spirit within the harsh Soviet system. In the film contemporary theater and film directors (Kirill Serebrennikov, Katie Mitchell, Lev Dodin and others) show how Stanislavski's method affects their everyday work. Each of the directors finds his or her own reflection in the mirror of his genius. In search of an answer to the question whether modern theatre really needs Stanislavski they discover that art lacks its most essential part – the human being.

Stanislavski: Lust for Life

2021

Victim Status poster
NR

Through the story of the traumas and scars of seven heroines, the film deals with the psychological model that people today live in. Each of us sooner or later found ourselves in the triangle: victim-aggressor-savior, and we did not always manage to see it and stop playing the role of the function in the destructive schema.

Victim Status

2018

Victim Status poster
NR

Through the story of the traumas and scars of seven heroines, the film deals with the psychological model that people today live in. Each of us sooner or later found ourselves in the triangle: victim-aggressor-savior, and we did not always manage to see it and stop playing the role of the function in the destructive schema.

Victim Status

2018

Solzhenitsyn. Remorse poster
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The main character of the film is Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn. The film uses materials both previously known and unpublished so far, as well as interviews with Alexander Isaevich, in which he talks about the future of Russia and the world in the 21st century, about modern literature and his difficult life. In addition to him, people who knew him closely, Evgeny Mironov, Alexander Sokurov, Georges Niva, Boris Morozov and his most important close friend and wife Natalia Dmitrievna Solzhenitsyna, participate in the film.

Solzhenitsyn. Remorse

2018

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Mother and daughter, evacuated after the bombing in Makeyevka, are learning to live anew.

Without Seams

2015

Life is a Thrill poster
5.0

This is a story about an amazing person who devotes his life to his students. Vladimir Fenchenko lit the hearts of hundreds of young filmmakers with love for cinema.

Life is a Thrill

2020

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Today, corporations are fighting for you. They will improve the quality of life. But they will collect data about each step and make decisions for you. What do you eat for dinner? What will you watch tonight? What will you do tomorrow? This will be decided by the ecosystem.

Ecosystems

2021

The Fugitives poster
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Denis Lisov was able to defend the right to raise his own children and went to Sweden to pick them up from a foster family and return to his native Khabarovsk.

The Fugitives

2023

Anatoly Belkin. High Water poster
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Portrait of the artist Anatoly Belkin, a legend of the Soviet underground, who continues to subtly capture the spirit of the times.

Anatoly Belkin. High Water

2025