Denis Shabaev
2021In 2013 graduated from the School of Documentary Film and Theatre of Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov. His second work as director was the 52-minute documentary “Together” (2014), which won the Laurel Branch at ArtDokFest, the first prize for the best non- fiction film at the St Anna festival, and the main prize at DOCUDAYS (Ukraine). His first feature film, “Not My Job” (2015), won the prize for Best Debut and a Diploma from the Guild of Film Critics and Scholars at Kinotavr 2016, the jury prize at Visions Du Reel in Nyon (Switzerland), and two prizes at the GoEast festival in Wiesbaden (Germany). “Mira” is his second feature film.
Мира
Denis Shabaev
Miroslaw Rogach, Alexandr Zaslavsky
The film’s action happens in the Donbass in our days. The protagonist is the Slovak Mira, who leaves his boring life of an émigré in England to go to the Luhansk People’s Republic. He sees his mission in the restoration of symbols of the Soviet empire: the monuments to Lenin, to miners, to workers...
Mira
Луганск. День выборов
Denis Shabaev
On the 11th of November 2018 the elections were held in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic. One of those who came to vote is a former locksmith Alexander Zaslavsky, a participant under the call sign "Old" in the battles in 2014 and 2015.
Luhansk. The Election Day
Together
Denis Shabaev
Two people are on the road. Everyday life, business calls, games, a curve of the highway, a swing and again business calls... During this year the father and the daughter have not seen much of each other and they have not been alone for a long time. Two cameras are looking face to face; different fears inhabit one and the same space. There is a question: should they come back or should they continue traveling together?
Together
Каспийский узел
Denis Shabaev
Follow the sea – are women’s stories on different shores of the Caspian Sea. The destinies of the film’s heroines, despite their ethnic, linguistic, cultural and religious differences, largely coincide and create a contradictory portrait of a modern woman in the Islamic world. Each of the heroines of the film is in conflict with the outside world, wants to change everything or return it as it was before. These are stories of people in search of happiness, next to the primordial element.
Follow the Sea
