Portrait / Портрет — watch online on Festagent

Credits

Director Natalia Vishnia
Scriptwriter Natalia Vishnia
Producer Natalia Vishnia
Cinematographer / DP Aleksandr Gusakov
Composer Natalia Vysokikh
Editor Natalia Vishnia
Sound Designer Anastasiya Merkusheva
CG Artist Aleksandr Gusakov
Artist Oksana Volshebnaya
Recording director Anastasiya Merkusheva

cast

Psychotherapist and Portrait Yelena Kalinina
Patient 4 Olga Bogdanova
Patient 3 Maria Kleshnina
Patient 2 Anna Madera
Patient 1 Lada Ischenko
Supervisor Anton Paderin
Young Psychotherapist Meria Parkkinen
Psychotherapist as a teen Margarita Aleksandrova
Psychotherapist as a child Liza Ruziyeva
Tosya Yekaterina Pisarevskaya
Tosya's boyfriend Mikhail Dragunov
Classmate Yuriy Zarubin
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Natalia Vishnia

Director

Directors Statement

It’s okay if you talk to a portrait. But if the portrait talks to you? I was inspired by the book "Choice" by the Hungarian-American psychologist Edith Eva Eger. In our lives, we are faced with a choice every second. It is not always a great or a fateful choice. And when we do not make it, it is also a choice. Is escape the right choice? And if the escape was the only right decision to save your life earlier, is it right to keep running away the rest of your life? Maybe it’s time to stop and look back? Isn’t running away from yourself now?