Feature filmS
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DON'T SHOOT IN MAN
Feature short film
2024

Country: Russia
Runtime: 24 min
Rating: 16+
Director: Irina Beleneva
Scriptwriter: Irina Beleneva
Producer: Margarita Zhurkina, Olga Pletneva, Elena Gladkova, Irina Beleneva
Cameraman: Vasily Kiryukhin
Sound engineer: Maria Sergeeva
Composer: Rodion Averyanov, Valeria Galinskikh
Artistic director: Eugenia Poteychuk
Starring: Maria Markovskikh, Mikhail Shamkov, Victoria Rotanova, Denis Kozintsev, Natalia Iokhvidova, Kirill Ulyanov
Production: Irina Beleneva

A man falls down during an excursion on the roof. A film crew led by reporter Yana arrives on the accident scene. Their goal is to film a news coverage denouncing the activities of illegal tour guides, but everything changes when Yana discovers that it is not the guide who is to blame for the man's fall.
IRINA BELENEVA
DIRECTOR'S BIO:

Born in Vladivostok, she moved to St Petersburg in 2016 and enrolled in the Documentary Film Department at the St Petersburg State Institute of Culture (SPbGIK). In 2019, she moved to Moscow and continued her studies at Vladimir Menshov’s workshop of motion-picture directing, VGIK. She works in the genres of drama, dramedy, thriller, road-movie, and is developing her feature length film debut.