Feature Films
Program
Not A Santa Claus
Short Feature Film
2025
Country: Russia
Runtime 23 min
Rating: 18+
Director: Stepan Azaryan
Scriptwriter: Stepan Azaryan, Nata Gerasimova
Producer: Stepan Azaryan, Anna Tananykina
Cameraman: Alexander Kitaytsev
Sound engineer: Denis Tsukanov
Artist: Natasha Troman
Starring: Igor Gordin, Anna Savranskaya, Alyona Babenko, Vladislav Tsenev, Sonya Priss, Katerina Becker
Production: IE Azaryan Stepan Surenovich
Santa Claus decides to quit his trade in order to live for himself in his old age. He leaves Veliky Ustyug for Moscow, embarks on all sorts of adventures, finds new friends and falls in love for the first time. This new stage of his life is being recorded by a group of documentary filmmakers, and no one may guess how it will all turn out when Santa Claus loses his magic powers...
2025
Country: Russia
Runtime 23 min
Rating: 18+
Director: Stepan Azaryan
Scriptwriter: Stepan Azaryan, Nata Gerasimova
Producer: Stepan Azaryan, Anna Tananykina
Cameraman: Alexander Kitaytsev
Sound engineer: Denis Tsukanov
Artist: Natasha Troman
Starring: Igor Gordin, Anna Savranskaya, Alyona Babenko, Vladislav Tsenev, Sonya Priss, Katerina Becker
Production: IE Azaryan Stepan Surenovich
Santa Claus decides to quit his trade in order to live for himself in his old age. He leaves Veliky Ustyug for Moscow, embarks on all sorts of adventures, finds new friends and falls in love for the first time. This new stage of his life is being recorded by a group of documentary filmmakers, and no one may guess how it will all turn out when Santa Claus loses his magic powers...
Stepan Azaryan
DIRECTOR’S BIO:
Stepan Azaryan is a director, actor, screenwriter and producer. He graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School in 2016. He worked at JulyAssemble and Praktika theatres, and at the Vsevolod Meyerhold Centre. Since 2021, he has collaborated with the Sovremennik Theatre. He is the author of the experimental cinema project Onegin through Films and the verbatim play Kamchatka.Doc. He directed Life in Art and Banana, the films that participated and won prizes of Russian and international festivals.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2019 – Life in Art
2020 – Banana
2025 – Not Santa Claus
Stepan Azaryan is a director, actor, screenwriter and producer. He graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School in 2016. He worked at JulyAssemble and Praktika theatres, and at the Vsevolod Meyerhold Centre. Since 2021, he has collaborated with the Sovremennik Theatre. He is the author of the experimental cinema project Onegin through Films and the verbatim play Kamchatka.Doc. He directed Life in Art and Banana, the films that participated and won prizes of Russian and international festivals.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2019 – Life in Art
2020 – Banana
2025 – Not Santa Claus