Birdhouse
Short documentary
2024
Country: Russia
Runtime: 21 min
Rating: 6+
Director: Ekaterina Zinovieva
Scriptwriter: Ekaterina Zinovieva
Producer: Ekaterina Zinovieva
Cameraman: Artem Strunkin
Tatiana and Artem have lived together for twenty-five years. They have two children of their own, who are grown-ups already, and an ever-changing number of adopted children.
Parents leave their children to Tatiana and Artem's family for temporary fostering. They are trusted by the child protection services, by parents who cannot cope with themselves and with the responsibility of raising children, by neighbours, by children who return to them even having grown up, but they are not trusted by people who happen to meet them at the crossroads of fate or in social networks.
The story is not only about Tatiana and Artem's family, but rather it is about each of us distrusting the goodness and mercy of others.
2024
Country: Russia
Runtime: 21 min
Rating: 6+
Director: Ekaterina Zinovieva
Scriptwriter: Ekaterina Zinovieva
Producer: Ekaterina Zinovieva
Cameraman: Artem Strunkin
Tatiana and Artem have lived together for twenty-five years. They have two children of their own, who are grown-ups already, and an ever-changing number of adopted children.
Parents leave their children to Tatiana and Artem's family for temporary fostering. They are trusted by the child protection services, by parents who cannot cope with themselves and with the responsibility of raising children, by neighbours, by children who return to them even having grown up, but they are not trusted by people who happen to meet them at the crossroads of fate or in social networks.
The story is not only about Tatiana and Artem's family, but rather it is about each of us distrusting the goodness and mercy of others.
EKATERINA ZINOVIEVA
BIRECTOR'S BIO:
Ekaterina was born in Nizhny Novgorod on 24 November 2000. She graduated from French grammar school N53 and in 2018 entered VGIK, the non-fiction film workshop under S.V. Miroshnichenko. In 2024, she graduated from the workshop under A.V. Osipov and T.P. Yurina. In 2023, Ekaterina participated in the VGIK International Student Festival, the film ‘Birdhouse’ took the special prize of the Roman Karmen Foundation for the Support of Non-fiction Films.
Ekaterina was born in Nizhny Novgorod on 24 November 2000. She graduated from French grammar school N53 and in 2018 entered VGIK, the non-fiction film workshop under S.V. Miroshnichenko. In 2024, she graduated from the workshop under A.V. Osipov and T.P. Yurina. In 2023, Ekaterina participated in the VGIK International Student Festival, the film ‘Birdhouse’ took the special prize of the Roman Karmen Foundation for the Support of Non-fiction Films.