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Our Films
drama, Experimental
genre:
diana Mashanova
writer:
diana Mashanova
director:
Chloe, a 16-year-old French exchange student in Buryatia, moves into a family tied to a funeral home and fractured desires. At school and at home, her innocence turns her into an exotic object, provoking obsession and alienation.
2025
the first cigarette
is for god
is for god
drama
genre:
diana Mashanova
writer:
diana Mashanova
director:
Olejka is a 9-year-old boy with fair hair, living in an orphanage. His presence has a magnetic effect on people. However, Olejka himself remains indifferent to those around him, with only one aspiration - to be adopted.
2023
a plaCe far from
home
home
drama
genre:
diana Mashanova
writer:
diana Mashanova
director:
Anya is a young woman who seeks to discover something about her absent father figure, but the strained relationship with her mother doesn’t allow for much leeway. When the mother brings home a strange male figure, their relationship only gets worse. Between raves and rituals typical of Buryatia, a republic that, despite being part of Russia, is marked by Siberian culture and traditions, Anya strives to rid herself of the anguish
in her body.
in her body.
2023
toli
Works in Progress
Documentary Experimental
genre:
Baine Choros
director:
After learning about his daughter’s incurable illness, Alex consults
a Buddhist monk, who advises him
to accumulate good karma. He creates
a route to the U.S. through a Mexican cartel to help thousands of Kalmyks leave Russia after February 24, 2022, hoping
to save both his daughter and his people.
a Buddhist monk, who advises him
to accumulate good karma. He creates
a route to the U.S. through a Mexican cartel to help thousands of Kalmyks leave Russia after February 24, 2022, hoping
to save both his daughter and his people.
work ongoing
Kalmyk Road
Documentary, Ecology
genre:
diana Mashanova
writer:
diana Mashanova
director:
When a girl finds a lifeless tree, she chooses to turn it into something meaningful. Her journey through the city becomes a poetic reflection
on humanity’s connection with nature.
on humanity’s connection with nature.
2026
GIRL WITH A TREE
drama
genre:
diana Mashanova
writer:
diana Mashanova
director:
The girl who moved from a Buryat village to the regional capital faces bullying from her classmates. Amidst the stress, she develops somnambulism, during which she enters the spirit world. Gradually,
the girl learns about shamanism, but her father, aware of the dangers of that world, tries to shield his daughter from
the inevitable gift.
the girl learns about shamanism, but her father, aware of the dangers of that world, tries to shield his daughter from
the inevitable gift.
(ANIMATED SERIES)
SHE IS FROM EKHIRIT TRIBE
drama
genre:
diana Mashanova
writer:
diana Mashanova
director:
In the depths of a developed country, people living in a shipping container harvest rice, their tongues cut off
in youth. Guarded to prevent knowledge of language, culture, or progress, they unwittingly witness the emergence
of these elements.
in youth. Guarded to prevent knowledge of language, culture, or progress, they unwittingly witness the emergence
of these elements.
RICE FIELDS