Lidiya Kanashova
Writing
Biography
Screenwriter and director. Graduated from VGIK’s Film Studies Faculty. In collaboration with Aleksey Fedorchenko, she wrote the screenplays for Breathe (short, 2017), Big Snakes of Ulli-Kale (2021), The Last Darling Bulgaria (2022), and Mitrofan Aksenov’s Sausage (2023).
Known For

1943 year. Alma-Ata. The hero of the film is a young Michurin fruit grower who revives a medicinal apple variety and investigates a strange crime. The script was written based on the book by Mikhail Zoshchenko "Before the Sunrise".
Last «Dear Bulgaria»

A film about the history of the Volga village of Krasnovidovo, where Empress Catherine I, the great writer Maxim Gorky and the first cosmonaut of the planet Yuri Gagarin left their traces.
Burning Gorky

Valka cannot keep his balance. He needs crutches to stand and walk, and a bicycle to run. For him, the world is full of perils and mishaps. How can one face life at nine years old, when a wrong step or the slightest push sends you tumbling? To steady himself, Valka has invented a mantra: “I’m a real samurai!” Armed with it, he takes his first independent and courageous steps toward the world.
Adventures of a Real Samurai in the World of Disasters

Mitrofan Aksenov is a genius who anticipated the most important and influential scientific discovery of the twentieth century — the theory of relativity.
Mitrofan Aksenov's Sausage
The story of how the three-year-old philosopher Valya, with the help of his mother and doctors, defeated the disease and took his first step on his own.