Igor Voloshin (b. 1974, Sevastopol), a graduate of the Yaroslavl State Theater Institute (1996) and VGIK, the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (2000), made the striking shorts Mess (Myesivo, 2000) and Bitch (Suka, 2001 – best short doc at the Amsterdam International Documentary Festival, screened in competition at KVIFF 2002), followed by the award-winning short film Hare Hunting (Okhota na zaytsev, 2003). After the documentaries Lips (Guby, 2005) and Goat (Koza, 2008), he debuted in features with Nirvana (2008), a surreal vision of Petersburg’s drug scene. Then came the made-for-TV movie Olympius Inferno (2009) and another highly stylized film about the drug dependent “empty generation” of the early 1990s entitled I Am (Ja, 2009 – Dmitri Yashonkov took Best Camera at the Kinotavr FF in Sochi).
46. IFF Karlovy Vary
