
Nikita Dobrynin
Directing
Biography
Born in 1987 in Irkutsk. Studied at the journalism faculty of Irkutsk State University. Worked in television for 7 years. In 2022, he graduated from Alexander Sokurov's workshop at the St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television. His directorial works also include the archival film "The Winner" (2020) and the short films "Signals" (2021), "Sasha" (2021, doc.), "The Stars Shine, But Don't Warm" (2021), "It's All the Wind" (2022). His first full-length work, the documentary "Vad'd'a. Ordeals", won the Spirit of Fire festival prize in 2023.
Known For

The most enviable suitors of the country: young and successful actors, singers, businessmen, sports stars - choose a life partner in front of a million spectators. 25 beautiful girls are fighting for the heart of one bachelor who will get to know them better during a fabulous journey around the world. Every day the Cinderella rivalry becomes more and more dramatic, and the choice of a hero becomes more and more difficult.
The Bachelor

Russia, early 90s. Mariya, the owner of a small video rental store in an abandoned cinema, has her son disappear under strange circumstances. To understand what happened and find her son, Mariya has to cross the path of crime boss Egor Bocharov, make friends with fugitive criminal Dmitriy Shilin, reveal the secret of the ghost living in the cinema and find out how he is connected with the mysterious film number 8.
Film No. 8

The film was shot in the period from spring to winter 2021 in the vicinity of the village of Luzhitsy, which is located in the west of the Leningrad region. It was during this period that the natural and social landscape of these places began to change catastrophically due to the grandiose industrial development. The situation especially affects the Volga region, a small people with a thousand-year history who survived wars, revolutions and the Stalinist era.
Vad'd'a. Ordeal

This film tells about people whose hands create the main components of life on the planet every day. And it’s not just the material basis of our world made of metal, concrete or wood, but it’s also something that gives meaning to our lives, inspires and gives hope. The film’s characters — a locksmith and a fisherman, a steelworker and a farmer, a furniture maker and an anesthesiologist — are followed by the film’s Director, who suddenly turns from an observer into a creator.
Handmade

Andrei, a Russian nobleman, flesh and blood of the enlightened nineteenth century, volunteers to go to war to go through it together with the people. The fighting takes place in the middle of the merciless Russian winter. And the noble goal unexpectedly becomes the reason for a religious revelation. But does anyone in this world need it? The film is based on the story "Four Days" by Vsevolod Garshin.
Saviour
Sasha is a bartender of one of the bars in Moscow. She designs and organizes the party herself. This night is dedicated to the 2000s and the MTV era.
Sasha

During the Soviet-Afghan War, in the days when general secretary of the Communist Party Leonid Breznev, in a military hospital a young lieutenant wounded almost to death meets a young military nurse, tired almost to death. One meeting. One night. One candle. A short from Vladimir Koptsev, Alexander Sokurov’s pupil.
My Sister's Mercy
Nordic naïveté of feelings in the heart of the Leningrad region.
Signals

What does an actor leave behind? That is the question that Alla Demidova asks herself, the audience, the eternity. She went and lived through the tragedies by Shakespeare, Electra, Phaedra, Medea. Where can one go henceforth? If only become a phantom, an image, something eternal, an enduring reflection of this world in the mirror. This film is a journey away from our reality to an imaginary universe, to reflections, images, phantoms. It starts with an exposition devoted to Alla Demidova at the St. Petersburg Museum of Theatre and Music Art. But it does not only document the space; thanks to Demidova's speech it turns into a retrospective of her work, the parts she played, an explication of her approach to acting.