Director,
Writer,
Actress,
Production Designer,
Producer
Born in 1990, USSR (Russia)
 
 
Kseniya ZUEVA
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Ксения ЗУЕВА
Ksenia ZOUEVA
Filmography (extracts)
 
Director
2020 - Intervention (Вмешательство) [fiction, full length film]
2020 - The Child (Ребёнок) [fiction, 23 mn]
2017 - Nearest and dearest (Близкие) [fiction, 90 mn]
2015 - Gelya (Геля) [fiction, 31 mn]
 
Writer
2020 - Intervention (Вмешательство) from Kseniya ZUEVA [fiction, full length film]
2017 - Nearest and dearest (Близкие) from Kseniya ZUEVA [fiction, 90 mn]
2015 - Gelya (Геля) from Kseniya ZUEVA [fiction, 31 mn]
 
Actress
2020 - Conference (Конференция) from Ivan I. TVERDOVSKIY [fiction, 129 mn]
2019 - Russian Spleen (Хандра) from Aleksey KAMYNIN [fiction, 105 mn]
2016 - Stroboscope (Стробоскоп) from Yevgeniya DUPLIAKINA [fiction, 13 mn]
2014 - Fourteen Steps (Четырнадцать шагов) from Maksim SHAVKIN [37 mn]
 
Production Designer
2017 - Nearest and dearest (Близкие) from Kseniya ZUEVA [fiction, 90 mn]
 
Producer
2020 - The Child (Ребёнок) from Kseniya ZUEVA [fiction, 23 mn]
2015 - Gelya (Геля) from Kseniya ZUEVA [fiction, 31 mn]
 
Site : IMDb

Awards :
Nearest and dearest :
Prix du Conseil Régional de Normandie, meilleur premier film, Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2019

Biography
Director, actress, screenwriter. Studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School (class of R. Kozak and D. Brusnikin). Graduated from the Shchukin Theatre Institute (2012, acting class of V. Nikolaenko), from Higher Courses of Directors and Scriptwriters (2015, class of V. Khotinenko, P. Finn, V. Fenchenko). She has written scripts for cinema and TV, director of music and advertising clips. Made several shorts; the film “Gelya” (2015) won prizes at Russian and international festivals. In 2017 she made her first feature, “Nearest and Dearest” based on her own script. The film competed at ORKF Kinotavr in 2017 and participated in the IFF Pacific Meridian (NETPAC award) and the Festival of Russian Cinema in Honfleur (prize for best debut). “Intervention” is Ksenia Zueva’s second feature.
https://kinotavr.ru/
 

Commentaries and bibliography
- Ksenia Zueva: Intervention (Vmeshatel’stvo, 2020) Lora MJOLSNESS, 2021, Kinokultura
- Свой путь по фестивальным экранам "Близкие" начнут в Сочи , Olga GALITSKAYA, 2017, rg.ru