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Igor Smola
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Directing
Credits
14 titles
Igor Smola is an independent, self-taught filmmaker born in 1989 in the Murmansk region, USSR. Since 2020, he has lived and worked in Baku, Azerbaijan. His debut feature documentary, Trigger (2018), premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival. His films have been selected for Busan International Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Krakow Film Festival, and Stockholm International Film Festival. My Name Is Oil won the Best Documentary Award at the Tehran International Short Film Festival. His short film It Lives Under the Snow premiered at Winterthur and competed at Tampere Film Festival and in the Lab Competition at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Fil…
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NRTracking the evolution from 16mm and VHS to modern tech and thermal imaging, we shadow an army man. He treasures trophies, a family photo, boot camp moments. Yet, CCTV captures his crime, etched in digital memory.
POV Memory
2023
NRA boy is found lying bleeding in an artist′s studio. A policeman arrives to question the artist while as reality is gradually distorted.
Destruction
2022
7.0This is a story about the post-traumatic military syndrome development in the former Yugoslavia shown through the prism of irrational experiences of military operations real participants.
Trigger
2018
NROn a platform in the middle of the sea, the industrial machinery of an oil rig attempts to send out a warning of an impending catastrophe.
My Name Is Oil
2025
NRIn a village where people have been disappearing for years, a group of locals join two men to search for Murad, who recently vanished. They explore a local myth about a mysterious creature living under the snow. Their journey will uncover a secret deeper than they could have imagined.
It Lives Under the Snow
2025
The movie focuses on the first steps of schizophrenia in the life of the character and his attempt to realize it and accept it through himself for half a year. How and why does this happen to "us"? From the ignorant state to the splitting of cognitions and emotions.
Split Life
2019
Behind the camera
NRTracking the evolution from 16mm and VHS to modern tech and thermal imaging, we shadow an army man. He treasures trophies, a family photo, boot camp moments. Yet, CCTV captures his crime, etched in digital memory.
POV Memory
2023
NRTracking the evolution from 16mm and VHS to modern tech and thermal imaging, we shadow an army man. He treasures trophies, a family photo, boot camp moments. Yet, CCTV captures his crime, etched in digital memory.
POV Memory
2023
NRA boy is found lying bleeding in an artist′s studio. A policeman arrives to question the artist while as reality is gradually distorted.
Destruction
2022
NRA boy is found lying bleeding in an artist′s studio. A policeman arrives to question the artist while as reality is gradually distorted.
Destruction
2022
7.0This is a story about the post-traumatic military syndrome development in the former Yugoslavia shown through the prism of irrational experiences of military operations real participants.
Trigger
2018
7.0This is a story about the post-traumatic military syndrome development in the former Yugoslavia shown through the prism of irrational experiences of military operations real participants.
Trigger
2018
NROn a platform in the middle of the sea, the industrial machinery of an oil rig attempts to send out a warning of an impending catastrophe.
My Name Is Oil
2025
NROn a platform in the middle of the sea, the industrial machinery of an oil rig attempts to send out a warning of an impending catastrophe.
My Name Is Oil
2025
NROn a platform in the middle of the sea, the industrial machinery of an oil rig attempts to send out a warning of an impending catastrophe.
My Name Is Oil
2025
NRIn a village where people have been disappearing for years, a group of locals join two men to search for Murad, who recently vanished. They explore a local myth about a mysterious creature living under the snow. Their journey will uncover a secret deeper than they could have imagined.
It Lives Under the Snow
2025
NRIn a village where people have been disappearing for years, a group of locals join two men to search for Murad, who recently vanished. They explore a local myth about a mysterious creature living under the snow. Their journey will uncover a secret deeper than they could have imagined.
It Lives Under the Snow
2025
NRIn a village where people have been disappearing for years, a group of locals join two men to search for Murad, who recently vanished. They explore a local myth about a mysterious creature living under the snow. Their journey will uncover a secret deeper than they could have imagined.
It Lives Under the Snow
2025
The movie focuses on the first steps of schizophrenia in the life of the character and his attempt to realize it and accept it through himself for half a year. How and why does this happen to "us"? From the ignorant state to the splitting of cognitions and emotions.
Split Life
2019
The movie focuses on the first steps of schizophrenia in the life of the character and his attempt to realize it and accept it through himself for half a year. How and why does this happen to "us"? From the ignorant state to the splitting of cognitions and emotions.
Split Life
2019
