Feature Films
Program
About the Cow
Short Feature Film
2025

Country: Russia
Runtime 25 min
Rating: 12+
Directors: Nikolai Alekseev, Anton Simukhin
Scriptwriter: Anton Simukhin
Cameraman: Vitaly Kokarev
Composer: Vadim Kupriyanov
Artist: Polina Bazanova
Starring: Anastasia Popova, Denis Nikiforov, Ilya Korobko, Elena Muravyeva, Anton Figurovsky
Producers: Anton Simukhin, Nikolai Alekseev, Dmitry Yakunin
Production: MOVIESTART, MANIFESTO FILM

Unlucky Muscovite Snezhana comes to the village to bury her stepfather in order to inherit the house. As she has no money for the funeral, she decides to sell the cow.
Nikolai Alekseev, Anton Simukhin
DIRECTORS’ BIO:

NIKOLAI ALEKSEEV and ANTON SIMUKHIN graduated from the VGIK in 2016, they were fellow students of the acting department (workshop by Alexander Mikhailov). Their filmography includes the short films The Film with Vitya, His Death and a Couple of Songs (2020), Awol (2020), Yuriev Island (2025).