
Anton Bilzho
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Biography
Anton Andreevich Bilzho (Russian: Антон Андреевич Бильжо; 17 June 1978; Moscow) is a Russian film director and screenwriter. He was born in the family of the famous Russian cartoonist and humorist Andrey Georgievich Bilzho, a psychiatrist by profession. He studied at the Lomonosov Moscow State University at the Faculty of Journalism. He graduated from the Higher Courses of Screenwriters and Directors. He worked on television in the program "Dachniki", was a journalist in the "Russian Telegraph", "Kommersant" and "Gazeta". He worked as a copywriter for the McCann Erickson advertising agency. Lecturer at the Design School of the Higher School of Economics. In 2012, he began shooting commercials, short films, and writing screenplays. In 2016, he shot his debut feature film "Dreamfish", which was shown at the Kinotavr Film Festival as part of the "Main Competition Program". The next feature-length work of the director was the film "Ambivalence", which was shown at the XI International Film Festival "North Wind". In 2018, he received a diploma at the 26th Window to Europe Film Festival. He is the author of a novel called "Capsule for a Copywriter", which was released in 2015 by RIPOLL-Classic publishing house, and the winner of the Faultet award in the Short Prose section.
Known For

Two friends, young psychiatrists, perceive life in different ways. One wants to do the right thing. The second is to experiment. One is a diligent student. The second is the troublemaker. One loves, hating. The second hates, loving. It's a pity that they have only one passion - Katerina Sergeevna. For one, she is Mom, Dad's wife. For another - a lover.
Ambivalence

Five different stories about women - their loved ones, passion, family and what they really want in life.
Very Feminine Stories

A woman who loves dogs lives in her world full of passions.
Danzhrez liazon

Life on Earth has changed after the visit of alien ships hovering in various parts of the planet. Their passengers — biopages or "Vitaliki", as they are popularly called — produce a substance called "prak". Its purpose, as well as the purpose of the aliens' visit, is unknown, but nurse Nina (Irina Salikova) from a quiet provincial town hopes to help her sick father with the help of prak. After contacting Vitalik, Nina learns the truth about extraterrestrial beings, which completely changes her life.
Encounters
Moscow, 1934. At the end of his life, anticipating his imminent departure, at the request of his loved ones, Lev Vygotsky agrees to several psychoanalytic sessions with the grand lady of world psychology, a student of Freud and Jung, Sabine Spielrein. Adhering to largely opposite views, two great scientists are trying to answer each other the main question of their time — is there a method to educate a "new person"?
Vygotsky

Single mother Maria lives with her son and daughter in a science city, which is being prepared for liquidation. She believes that her physicist husband, who disappeared six years ago during a scientific experiment, is somewhere nearby — just in another dimension. A former colleague of her husband arrives in the city in search of the missing person's records, and Maria has a boyfriend-trucker Stas, ready to take her away with her children and start a new life together. Faced with a choice, a woman can not decide to leave her invisible husband.
Invisible

Short stories shot by four different directors on 8 mm film. The first story by Dmitry Ryabikov is a real field test for a feature which was done as experimental film about the Creation of the World. The second story is an action short by Dorji Galsanov about problems and understanding between two friends. The third one from Anton Bilzho, a teaser for upcoming thriller, is about love to invisible creature. And the fourth story by Anton Sokolov is about love to aliens - a logical final of all parts.
Tests 8

Roman is a born proofreader from a family of proofreaders, a real intellectual from St. Petersburg who comes to Narva-Jõesuu, a small Estonian spa town, to find inspiration, tranquility, and silence. He does proofreading of the encyclopedia of the Baltic Sea Fishes, compiled in the same location by Professor Polyanski, winner of the Nobel Prize. This work is very important for Roman. He would have accomplished his task, but once he swam too far in the sea. It was then that Helena came into his life, to change his ideas about the world forever.
Dreamfish
Every office employee who has lost his essence plunges into chaos and dissolves into it.
Unavailable

Veta has an indifferent husband and blond friend Lisa. When Veta becomes depressed, Lisa pulls her "to the bottom." What Veta only thinks about, Lisa is already doing.
Washer

The plumber comes home with a gift...
Happy Ending

At the end of September 2023, several people went into the forest to make a film about the end of the world. They lived in tents for ten days as the cold weather approached. Each person came up with a character. How would they like to meet the end? What scares them and what can give them hope? Collective life in difficult conditions led to the stories intersecting and the boundaries between people and characters disappearing.
End of the Ends

A female hunter shot a man who was just flying in the jamb with other men. She gave him shelter and bore him an egg. But he never stopped dreaming of the sky, and when spring came, he finally managed to take off. The woman ran out with a gun, shot, but another man fell down. Hunter took him home and the man had nothing else left but remembering what was irrevocably lost.
The Story About Eugenia And Me

The governor asks his wife to stage this beloved folk ballet, which should be good PR for his upcoming elections. But it turns out that Swan Lake is also a ballet about two worlds. Trying to fulfill her husband's order, the governor's wife breaks out of the boundaries of the estate, regulated by the world of reconstructions. In the city, she encounters "ordinary people" unknown to her, sleeping swans.
Swan Lake
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Something That Never Happened to Me
The project of Olga Zhirova and Julia Vorobieva
Как взрослые
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Люби меня иной

A reserved and kind girl, Lilia loved to look in mirrors, and in a dream, freed from self-observation, she communicated with an old oak tree. Everything was fine until a man appeared in the usual sequence of Lily's reflections. Feeling unhappy after having an affair with him, she found solace in an oak tree from her own dreams.
Mirrors of the Beautiful Lilia Vorontsova

A collective film created within the framework of the laboratory "Ya. Fear. Claustrophobia", consisting of videos that were filmed at the beginning of quarantine - from May 2020 to August 2021. Anyone could take part in the project.