Section: Short Film Competition

Growing Pains

Ellen Rodnianski

Russia, 2020, 26 Min

Youthful, wild and intense. She is at odds with the authorities, and has issues at home too. Zhenya hasn't even grown up and yet finds herself nine months pregnant. Though she likes to provoke, she is actually just looking for warmth and intimacy. But where? Run away with the child's father, who is no less young and lost? An atmospheric, fast-moving coming-of-age search for the right path in life.

Ellen Rodnianski

Filmformat
4:3

Drehbuch
Ellen Rodnianski

Kamera
Yasha Bashta

Ton
Anton Klevtsov

Schnitt
Muharam Kabulova

Ausstattung
Yulia Ulrich

Musik
Denis Pekarev

Darsteller
Polina Doroshkevich,
Artem Raguzin,
Olga Dragunova,
Karina Razumovskaya,
Elizaveta Tolubueva,
Viktoria Maraleva,
Tatiana Kalashnikova,
Yulia Yakovleva,
Tatiana Polonskaya,

Produzent
Natalya Gorina

Produktion
Tvin Media

Kontakt
Tvin Media
Natalya Gorina
erodnianski@gmail.com

Ellen Rodnianski - director, writer, and producer - based in Los Angeles, California. She was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, and grew up between Germany and Moscow, Russia. She received her BA in History from The University of Chicago in 2016. She followed up this extremely academic degree by receiving an MFA from the USC Peter Stark Producing Program right after undergrad. She was the assistant to the Showunner on the second season of the Netflix Original TV series The OA. Ellen is also an associate producer of Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole and Ismail Safarali's The Fisherman's Daughter. Ellen spent 6 months of 2021 in Canada, working with Kantemir Balagov on his episodes of The Last of Us (HBO). Besides Growing Pains Ellen is the writer/director/producer of two more short films: Zoe's Dumpling Crisis and Cinephile.

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