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Irina Volkova

Irina Volkova

Directing

Biography

Irina Volkova grew up at the North of Russia. She had graduated from Krasnoyarsk State University at the year 2000, journalism faculty. At the year 2005 she graduated from High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors, direction faculty. Nowadays she lives and works in Moscow. She is specialized at directing full-length and short movies, TV series and documentaries, participates at projects based on different topics and also works on independent theater plays. In ordinary life she has a good sense of humor, loves to travel and make interesting stories, writing screenplays and also teaching students to do proper editing and directing.

Known For

Air
7.2

Young female fighter pilots arrive to the frontline. They have different stories and different fates. They are getting older, falling in love and lose their closest ones as well as take their place in the world of men. The air has become their home. However, at war no one knows whose fate is to live and who is doomed to die.

Air

2024
Russian Short. Vol. 2
N/A

Five unusual short stories in the almanac from Russian directors. Horror about the mystical school from Alexander Domogarov, Jr. (“Let the children go”). Erotic thriller "Ear Ring" with Lukerya Ilyashenko. Black comedy about the forest walk of two friends "Mushrooms and fish." Witty kinonovella "Che" on a spontaneous trip to St. Petersburg. The post-New Year story with Olga Sutulova and Marina Vasilyeva about finding the missing guy named Kostik.

Russian Short. Vol. 2

2019
Without Me
6.1

Two girls, who used to be in love with the same man, are starting to get texts and other mysterious messages after his death, and the only person, who could’ve possibly sent them, is him. The messages from the gone man send two rivals to the south of the country, when they have two unravel the mystery of their mutual loved one, understand themselves and deal with their own past.

Without Me

2018
Vera
4.0

Vera lives solely on the problems of her family: her eternally ill husband Kostya and her fifteen-year-old son Romka. In fact, Vera is happy with everything, until her husband's first love suddenly appears on the horizon - the beautiful Lyudmila and her daughter Yulya. There is nothing special about the latter, but, as luck would have it, it is this girl that Romka is interested in. Now she is seriously thinking about divorce and exchanging an apartment, trying to force her son to move away from Yulka.

Vera

2024
Dialogues
7.6

Five attempts to say the most important thing, through dumbness and fear of being misunderstood. Five steps to yourself, through the reflection in the closest people. Five breaths to go on, overcoming emptiness and fear of death, in search and finding love. Different heroes go this way with only one desire to be heard and accepted as they are. But is it possible?

Dialogues

2014
The Exception to the Rule
10.0

Marina comes to classmates' reunion and feels that her life hasn't changed: she is still divorced, lives with mom and works at school. After looking at her situation from classmates' view, Marina moves to Moscow from Petersburg to change her life radically...

The Exception to the Rule

2013
Woman's View
N/A

A sensuous anthology of five short stories directed by young female directors with their own unique vision. Each of the stories in its own way examines different aspects of the life of modern women, plunging into their problems and experiences. The novel "Kindred Spirit" tells about a prostitute's love date with a major, and in "Marjanja" the sisters are looking for ways to come to an understanding. The heroes of the novel "Schrodinger's Paradise" are desperately searching for their Self, and the will of chance comes to their aid. In the "Issue", the main character realizes the falsity of her relationship with her best friend and keenly anticipates the passing of youth, and in the "Observer", the characters meet a real soul mate and find true happiness.

Woman's View

2021
Euthanasia
N/A

An experienced inspector suspects a cardiologist of murder. But he has doubts, as he does not understand why a kind, intelligent woman would commit the cold, planned murder of her rival, for whom her husband left her long ago. Jealousy? A sense of ownership? In exchange for the truth he offers information which may change the view of the potential criminal.

Euthanasia

2019
Kostik
N/A

On New Year's Eve, a young guy named Kostik disappears. His search is engaged in warring with each other mother and ex-girlfriend. Mom thinks the girl is to blame for what happened. She forces the girl to participate in all search operations. They put up orientations, look at the corpses in the morgue, sweep through the forest, get into the police. Love for Kostik will push women to desperate acts.

Kostik

2017
Treasure
N/A

No description available.

Treasure

2016
Women of the Gulag
6.3

Through unique and candid interviews the film tells the compelling and tragic stories of the six women – last survivors of the Gulag, the brutal system of repression and terror that devastated the Soviet population during the regime of Stalin.

Women of the Gulag

2017
My Kieslowski
10.0

No description available.

My Kieslowski

2006
Distance
10.0

He wants to leave, but always stays. She wants him to stay, but she cannot forgive. Night gives them a chance to see how will the life change if they do as they want. They see one dream together and there they realize why are they together.

Distance

2005
Inside
10.0

There is a sterile megapolis outside. Chaos of pain and despair reigns there. People have lost their ability to be people and death is waiting for them everyday and everywhere. On contrary, "inside" is the place where they receive doctors' help. While saving the wretched, the doctors save all of us too.

Inside

2008
Kindergarten
N/A

A man brings a woman onto an empty theater stage to tell her the idea for a future play. He suggests staging a documentary about two people who look like them ending up in hell.

Kindergarten

2021