Spine
Feature short film
2024
Country: Russia
Runtime: 17 min
Rating: 18+
Director: Kristina Panova
Scriptwriter: Kristina Panova
Producer: Kristina Panova, Yulia Rymar, Victoria Oskina
Cameraman: Ilyas Gazizov
Film editor: Anastasia Saltykova
Sound engineer: Alexander Rublevsky
Artistic director: Anna Tolkachyova
Starring: Sergey Shchedrin, Elvira Kekeeva
Production: Kristina Eduardovna Panova
Prison doctor Semyon makes an agreement with his conscience by signing a false report on a beaten prisoner. The next day he accidentally comes face to face with the mother of the man whose murder he covered up. Now he faces a dilemma — to tell her the truth or to lie.
2024
Country: Russia
Runtime: 17 min
Rating: 18+
Director: Kristina Panova
Scriptwriter: Kristina Panova
Producer: Kristina Panova, Yulia Rymar, Victoria Oskina
Cameraman: Ilyas Gazizov
Film editor: Anastasia Saltykova
Sound engineer: Alexander Rublevsky
Artistic director: Anna Tolkachyova
Starring: Sergey Shchedrin, Elvira Kekeeva
Production: Kristina Eduardovna Panova
Prison doctor Semyon makes an agreement with his conscience by signing a false report on a beaten prisoner. The next day he accidentally comes face to face with the mother of the man whose murder he covered up. Now he faces a dilemma — to tell her the truth or to lie.
KRISTINA PANOVA
DIRECTOR'S BIO:
Kristina was born in Moscow in 1994. She developed as a creative copywriter in advertising for a long time, but after 8 years in the industry she started to shift her focus towards films. She graduated from the Directing Programme at the Moscow Film School, supervised by Alexey Popogrebsky and Pavel Bardin. In 2022, she won the open call Beat Film Festival. In 2023, she won the IRI Debut grant, and she was also included in the longlist of the Lenfilm-Debut Lab the same year. In 2024, she was included in the top 15 projects participating in the WRAP x HPP-2 x AKI Film Lab.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2022 – 50/50 EGGSELLENT, short documentary
2023 – ULYA, short feature film
Kristina was born in Moscow in 1994. She developed as a creative copywriter in advertising for a long time, but after 8 years in the industry she started to shift her focus towards films. She graduated from the Directing Programme at the Moscow Film School, supervised by Alexey Popogrebsky and Pavel Bardin. In 2022, she won the open call Beat Film Festival. In 2023, she won the IRI Debut grant, and she was also included in the longlist of the Lenfilm-Debut Lab the same year. In 2024, she was included in the top 15 projects participating in the WRAP x HPP-2 x AKI Film Lab.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2022 – 50/50 EGGSELLENT, short documentary
2023 – ULYA, short feature film