Director | Anna Kravchenko |
Scriptwriter | Anna Kravchenko |
Cinematographer / DP | Anna Kravchenko |
Editor | Anna Kravchenko |
Sound Designer | Ilya Smelkov |
Sound Designer | Ekaterina Zaitseva |
Younger Brother | Simon Steinberg |
Older Brother | Eugeniy Skukovsky |
Maxim Selyutin | |
Vasiliy Skukovsky |
Born in Ukraine in 1984, raised in Russia's Orenburg and living in Moscow. Graduated from Moscow State University with a major in Russian language and literature. Before applying to film school in 2015, worked in brokerage company, then as a financial journalist. Studied at Moscow School of New Cinema in Fred Kelemen's cinematography and directing laboratory. Member of the student jury at the San-Sebastian film festival in 2018. First feature film Do What You Want finished in 2019.
Do What You Want (2019)
The power of family patterns in shaping our lives has always been fascinating to me. This film explores the strength it takes to break free from them. If our childhood predestines so much, is any of us really free to do what we want? Yet it is not a family drama but a noir film, gripping and ahead of its audience at every moment. It shows that demons from the past and dark families truths are more dangerous than thugs. The fight against them leaves no victors, only survivors.