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The Scraper (SCRIOB)
Feature short film
2025

Country: Russia
Runtime: 24 min
Rating: 18+
Director: Maria Neikovskaya
Scriptwriter: Svetlana Yurchenko, Maria Neykovskaya, Ulyana Gitsareva, author of the play “The Match Factory”
Producer: Anna Babenko
Cameraman: Anna Krainova
Sound engineer: Maria Arlyapova
Composer: Maria Arlyapova
Artist: Tatiana Novikova
Starring: Nadezhda Dugina, Alla Emintseva, Polina Halepo, Nikita Antonov
Production: SPbGIKiT, 2025

Freshman Nastya loves white chocolate, goes to the cinema with her mother and dreams of a first kiss. Everything changes when she starts studying at college, which has rules of it own.
“The Scraper” is a story about an indifferent world where you want to get your piece of love at all costs.
Maria Neikovskaya
DIRECTOR'S BIO:

Maria Neikovskaya was born in Yekaterinburg, where she was trained as a fashion designer. In 2022, she enrolled at SpbGIKiT, the feature film workshop of Dmitry Meskhiev and Alexey Zlobin. “The Scraper” is the director’s first short film.