Credits
| Director | Anya Alekhina |
| Scriptwriter | Anya Alekhina |
| Producer | Anya Alekhina |
| Cinematographer / DP | Katya Smolina |
| Art director | Mikhail Svjatogor |
| Editor | Anya Alekhina |
| Sound Designer | Peter Isachenko |
cast
| Diana Gorbunova | |
| Aleksander Dubrovskiy | |
| Evelina Panteleyeva |
Anya Alekhina
Director03/15/1985
Biography
Anya Alekhina is a writer and director from Kaliningrad, Russia. She holds an MFA in Film Production from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and served as an adjunct faculty member there from 2018 to 2020. Her short films have been in competitions at Oscar-qualified international film festivals, and she won the Award of Merit at the LA Shorts International Film Festival. After five years of living and working in the United States, she recently returned to Russia to develop her debut feature film.
Filmography
2021 - Lumens (13 min) 2021 - Kati-Kati (10 min, in post-production) 2018 - Strong Bonds (10 min, Rooftop, First Run NYC) 2017 - A Celebration (12 min, First Run NYC, Panoramica, Caribbean Film Festival & Market, AltFF, , MedFF) 2016 - Decompression (10 min, Koroche, Award of Merit at the LA Shorts International Film Festival)
Directors Statement
I made Lumens in order to explore the contradictory and difficult feelings I was having about Russia after five years away. I desperately missed my homeland, but every time I returned there, I felt profound isolation; living in the US had changed me, exposing me to feminist ideas that I didn’t encounter growing up. Since becoming aware of my rights as a woman and my own internalized misogyny and self-hate, visiting home had become frustrating and alienating.
