Writing

Lidiya Kanashova

Screenwriter and director. Graduated from VGIK’s Film Studies Faculty. In collaboration with Aleksey Fedorchenko, she wrote the screenplays for Breathe (short, 2017), Big Snakes of Ulli-Kale (2021), The Last Darling Bulgaria (2022), and Mitrofan Aksenov’s Sausage (2023).

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Myths About Hephaestus, the God and the Construction Team poster
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The film is dedicated to the 55-year history of the student construction team "Gefest" from the Ural Polytechnic Institute, which built projects throughout the Soviet Union during its summer internships.

Myths About Hephaestus, the God and the Construction Team

2025

Last «Dear Bulgaria» poster
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1943 year. Alma-Ata. The hero of the film is a young Michurin fruit grower who revives a medicinal apple variety and investigates a strange crime. The script was written based on the book by Mikhail Zoshchenko "Before the Sunrise".

Last «Dear Bulgaria»

2021

Mitrofan Aksenov's Sausage poster
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Mitrofan Aksenov is a genius who anticipated the most important and influential scientific discovery of the twentieth century — the theory of relativity.

Mitrofan Aksenov's Sausage

2023

Burning Gorky poster
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A film about the history of the Volga village of Krasnovidovo, where Empress Catherine I, the great writer Maxim Gorky and the first cosmonaut of the planet Yuri Gagarin left their traces.

Burning Gorky

2025

Adventures of a Real Samurai in the World of Disasters poster
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Valka cannot keep his balance. He needs crutches to stand and walk, and a bicycle to run. For him, the world is full of perils and mishaps. How can one face life at nine years old, when a wrong step or the slightest push sends you tumbling? To steady himself, Valka has invented a mantra: “I’m a real samurai!” Armed with it, he takes his first independent and courageous steps toward the world.

Adventures of a Real Samurai in the World of Disasters

2025

Adventures of a Real Samurai in the World of Disasters poster
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Valka cannot keep his balance. He needs crutches to stand and walk, and a bicycle to run. For him, the world is full of perils and mishaps. How can one face life at nine years old, when a wrong step or the slightest push sends you tumbling? To steady himself, Valka has invented a mantra: “I’m a real samurai!” Armed with it, he takes his first independent and courageous steps toward the world.

Adventures of a Real Samurai in the World of Disasters

2025

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The story of how the three-year-old philosopher Valya, with the help of his mother and doctors, defeated the disease and took his first step on his own.

Valka

2018

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The story of how the three-year-old philosopher Valya, with the help of his mother and doctors, defeated the disease and took his first step on his own.

Valka

2018