COMPETITIVE PROGRAM -
SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILMS
On the railway of memories
По рельсам воспоминаний
Year of production: 2022
Production country: Russia
Production company: VGIK
Director: Lydia Filippova
Producer: Lydia Filippova
Screenwriter: Lydia Filippova
Composer: Vasily Buylov
D.O.P.: Gleb Ermakov
Editor: Lydia Filippova
Sound Director: Evgeny Pereyaslavtsev
Film category: Short documentary film
Rating: 12+
Length: 28 min.
An elderly geologist Andron Vseslavich goes on a train journey from Moscow to Severobaikalsk. On the road, the hero goes through photographs of his youth, remembering how in the late 70s he scouted the future route of the Baikal-Amur Mainline.
Selected festival history
2023:
  • International Student Film and Video Festival (Best Documentary)
  • Baikal Regional Film Festival (participant of the competition program)
  • Screen test (participant of the competition program)
Lydia Filippova
DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY:
Lydia Filippova was born and raised in Irkutsk. Since 2018 she studied at the Irkutsk branch of VGIK, specializing in directing non-fiction films, workshop of S. A. Golovetsky. In 2020, she was transferred to the VGIK in Moscow for the same specialty, the workshop of S. V. Miroshnichenko and S. L. Muzychenko. She completed her studies in 2023.

DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
2022 – What are these walls for?
2022 – Affinage. Assemblage point
2022 – Rearview mirror
2021 – Intermission
2021 - I'm not alone