
Alexander Shuryepov
Directing
Known For

Eight months after the Chernobyl disaster, a Chernobylite woman that stayed behind to care for her sick mother gives birth to a mutated daughter. She wakes up after giving birth to find her mother gone. Masha, isolated and suffering from cataracts from the radiation exposure, becomes fearful that soldiers will take her contaminated baby. While attempting to reunite with her family in Kiev, the blinding mother and infant become lost in a forest. Masha sees a figure chasing her and believes it's a soldier that wants her child.
Mother of Chernobyl

A mother and son travel towards opposite sides of the Mexico-U.S. border wall to reunite after decades apart.
The Golden Cage

A Ukrainian grandmother suffering from dementia is transported back to moments of her life in the Soviet Union.
Odessa, TX

On a midnight bus, a boy is just trying to catch some sleep, but the man who boards after him has more intimate ideas in mind.