Igor Smola
Directing
Biography
Filmmaker, born in 1989 in a closed town of Murmansk-150. At 11, he moved with his parents to Biysk, where he developed an interest in cinema, and later lived in St. Petersburg from age 15. In 2017, he made his first film in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the docufiction Trigger, which was shown in the out-of-competition programme of the Sarajevo Film Festival and in competition at the Spirit of Fire International Film Festival. Since 2020, he has been living in Azerbaijan, where he released his second film Destruction (2022). Igor’s third film, POV Memory (2023), participated in the International Competition of the 34th Message to Man Film Festival, as well as at ZINEBI, True/False, and the Uppsala Film Festival.
Known For
Tracking the evolution from 16mm and VHS to modern tech and thermal imaging, we shadow an army man. He treasures trophies, a family photo, boot camp moments. Yet, CCTV captures his crime, etched in digital memory.
POV Memory
A boy is found lying bleeding in an artist′s studio. A policeman arrives to question the artist while as reality is gradually distorted.
Destruction
The movie focuses on the first steps of schizophrenia in the life of the character and his attempt to realize it and accept it through himself for half a year. How and why does this happen to "us"? From the ignorant state to the splitting of cognitions and emotions.
Split Life
In a village where people have been disappearing for years, a group of locals join two men to search for Murad, who recently vanished. They explore a local myth about a mysterious creature living under the snow. Their journey will uncover a secret deeper than they could have imagined.
It Lives Under the Snow
This is a story about the post-traumatic military syndrome development in the former Yugoslavia shown through the prism of irrational experiences of military operations real participants.
Trigger
The villagers, who think that Hasan is dead, believe that he has mystical powers when he opens his eyes. The subsequent course of events begins to unfold around Hasan, and is based on this mystical atmosphere.
Dead Hasan
On a platform in the middle of the sea, the industrial machinery of an oil rig attempts to send out a warning of an impending catastrophe.