Nigina SAYFULLAEVA
Нигина САЙФУЛЛАЕВА
Niguina SAIFOULLAEVA
Russia, 2014, 91mn 
Colour, fiction
Kak menya zavut
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Как меня зовут

 

 Name me

 Comment je m'appelle

 
Directed by : Nigina SAYFULLAEVA (Нигина САЙФУЛЛАЕВА)
Writing credits : Nigina SAYFULLAEVA (Нигина САЙФУЛЛАЕВА)
 
Cast
Konstantin LAVRONENKO (Константин ЛАВРОНЕНКО)
Aleksandra BORTICH (Александра БОРТИЧ)
Marina VASILIEVA (Марина ВАСИЛЬЕВА)
Kirill KAGANOVICH (Кирилл КАГАНОВИЧ)
Anna KOTOVA-DERYABINA (Анна КОТОВА-ДЕРЯБИНА)
 
Produced by : Anna KAGARLICKAYA (Анна КАГАРЛИЦКАЯ), Sergey KORNIKHIN (Сергей КОРНИХИН), Sergey_2 KOZLOV (Сергей_2 КОЗЛОВ), Igor TOLSTUNOV (Игорь ТОЛСТУНОВ)
Companies : Profit, кинокомпания «Друг друга»
Société cinématographique "Droug drouga"
Film Company “Drug-druga”
Film revenue in Russia : 0.55359 million dollars
Spectators : 11 100
Release Date in Russia : 27/11/2014
 
Site : IMDb

Awards :
Special Jury prize Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2014
Best first film Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2014
Best actress Aleksandra BORTICH , Marina VASILIEVA , Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2014
Discovery of the year International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2014

Plot synopsis
The 17-year-old Muscovites Olya and Sasha go to the Crimea to get acquainted with Olya’s father Sergei. Sergei has lived all his life in a small seaside settlement and has never seen his only daughter. On the threshold of his house, Olya gets frightened of the encounter and asks Sasha “to swap places”. Sasha is introduced as Olya, that is the daughter, while Olya declares herself to be the girl’s friend. First this game is amusing, but they do not suspect that their innocent joke would turn into a drama that turns everybody’s life upside down.
Source : http://kinotavr.ru/ru
 

commentaries
Нигина Сайфуллаева: Предназначение порнографии я понимаю, а эротика — это неинтересно, Interview, Snob, 2014
Nigina Saifullaeva: Name Me (Kak menia zovut, 2014), John A. RILEY, Kinokultura, 2014
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2022
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2017
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2017
- Tromso International Film Festival : TIFF, Tromso (Norway), 2016
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2015
- Seattle International Film Festival : SIFF, Seattle (USA), 2015
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2014
- Tbilisi International Film Festival, Tbilisi (Georgia), 2014
- FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, Cottbus (Germany), 2014
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2014
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2014
- San Sebastian International Film Festival, San Sebastian (Spain), 2014
- Festival des Films de Russie et d'Ailleurs, Geneva - Lausanne (Switzerland), 2014

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