DOCUMENTARIES
Official Selection
Kretinopis
Short documentary
2025

Country: Russia
Runtime: 26 min
Rating: 12+
Director: Maria Filicheva
Scriptwriter: Pavel Skorobogatov
Producer: Pavel Skorobogatov
Cameraman: Anton Sotnikov, (additional photography Stolyarov)
Sound engineer: Ilya Muravyov
Composer: Andrey Yudin
Starring: Egor Vlasov, Fedor Vlasov, Yaroslav Vlasov
Production: Pavel Skorobogatov Production Centre LLC

“We are restoring nature to its primevalness!” This is the motto of volunteer Egor, who together with his sons Fedor and Yarislav, enthusiastically clean the rocks of the Baikal region from vandal inscriptions using a laser beam machine that Egor bought with his own money. However, not everyone shares this passion, and there are opponents who believe that he deletes history in this way...
Maria Filicheva
DIRECTOR'S BIO

Maria was born in the town of Vikhorevka, Bratsk district, Irkutsk region, in 1999. Having graduated from school, she became student of the Philology Department of the Irkutsk State University. In 2020 she enrolled at the Irkutsk branch of VGIK, majoring in directing documentaries and television films (workshop by S. Golovetsky), graduating in 2025.

FILMOGRAPHY:

2023 – Loud and Tender
2025 – Inner Island
2023 – A Provincial Tale
2022 – Lullaby
2021 - Bride of Lake Baikal