PARENTS CAME TO ME IN SRI LANKA

Russia, Sri Lanka, 2017, 30 min.
Production: Mikhalkov Academy for Cinema and Theatre Arts
Language: Russian, English, Senegalese
Format: DCP

Script: Vera Vodynski
Director: Vera Vodynski
DoP: Liubov Kniazeva
Editor: Vera Vodynski, Timur Guzairov, Maria Wiemken
Composers: Paul Winter, Anatoly Gernadenko
Producer: Larisa Matveeva
Cast: Daniil Vorobyov, Elena Lemeshko, Eduard Chekmazov, Keerthi Wasantha, Ajith Manjula

Downshifter Alex lives in Sri Lanka as a white king. The parents’ arrival coincides with the mystical appearance of local deity Shamka in the village. Alex’s peaceful life ends at this point.

Vera Vodynski
Filmmaker, scriptwriter. Graduated from the Film Institute VGIK (2005) in fiction and documentary film. In 2016 graduated from the Mikhalkov Academy of Cinema and Theatre.

2016 The Witch (shorts)
2015 Neona (shorts)
2013 The Dark Story (shorts)
2013 Zhenechka (shorts)
2010 Running Anti-clockwise (doc., shorts)
2008 Celestial Country (doc., shorts)
2007 Russian Dance of Okado Yosiko (doc., shorts)
2005 Dreamers (doc., shorts)