Kantemir Arturowitsch Balagow

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Kantemir Arturowitsch Balagow ( Russian Кантеми́р Арту́рович Бала́гов ; born July 28, 1991 in Nalchik ) is a Russian film director and screenwriter .

Life

Kantemir Balagow was born in 1991 in Nalchik , the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria. He initially studied economics at the University of Stavropol and in 2011 moved to the University of Nalchik, where the Russian master director Alexander Sokurov had set up a film course a few years earlier. There he made his short film Pervyy ya (2014).

In 2015, Balagow directed the 48-minute, medium-length film romance Molodoy eschyo . His first feature film, Tesnota, premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival in May 2017 . There he was seen in the Un Certain Regard section and received several awards. The film is set in Nalchik in the 1990s and tells the story of a Jewish family who are confronted with the kidnapping of their son David and his bride on the evening of the engagement. Tesnota is based on a true story that the director first heard from his father and then from other eyewitnesses, so Balagow Tesnota tells the story from the point of view of David's 24-year-old, rebellious sister Ilana and explores the problem of whether a person is themselves also have to sacrifice oneself to save those who are close to him.

In November 2016, the film drama Sofichka by Kira Kovalenko celebrated its premiere at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival , for which Balagow wrote the script. His film Beanpole , which he directed again, was selected as a Russian proposal in the Best International Film category for the 2020 Academy Awards and was shortlisted in this category by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in mid-December 2019 .

Filmography

  • 2014: Pervyy ya (short film)
  • 2015: Molodoy eschyo
  • 2016: Sofichka (script only)
  • 2017: Tesnota (Теснота)
  • 2019: Beanpole (Дылда / Dylda )

Awards

AFI Film Festival

  • 2017: Nomination for the Audience Award - New Authors ( Tesnota )

Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián

  • 2017: Nomination in the section Zabaltegi-Tabakalera (Tesnota)

Munich Film Festival

  • 2017: Nomination as Best Young Director for the CineVision Award (Tesnota)

Cannes International Film Festival

  • 2017 : Award in the "Un Certain Regard" section - FIPRESCI Prize (Tesnota)
  • 2017: Nomination for the Caméra d'Or (Tesnota)
  • 2017: Nomination for the Prix "Un Certain Regard" (Tesnota)
  • 2019 : Award in the section "Un Certain Regard" - Best Director ( Beanpole )
  • 2019: Award in the "Un Certain Regard" section - FIPRESCI Prize (Beanpole)
  • 2019: Nomination for the Prix "Un Certain Regard" (Beanpole)
  • 2019: Nomination for the Queer Palm (Beanpole)

Stockholm International Film Festival

  • 2019: Received the Impact Award (Beanpole)

Viennale

  • 2019: Awarded the Standard Viennale Audience Award (Beanpole)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tesnota. In: viennale.at. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  2. ↑ Kantemir Balagov at IFFR. In: iffr.com. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  3. ↑ Kees Driessen: Kantemir Balagov on Tesnota. In: iffr.com, September 27, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b Tesnota. In: festival-cannes.com. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  5. ↑ Hannah Pilarczyk: New film by Fatih Akin: Like a mediocre "crime scene". In: Spiegel Online, May 26, 2017
  6. ↑ Irma Kreiten: Cannes: Kantemir Balagov on the way to international success. In: nex24.news, May 27, 2017.
  7. ↑ Leo Barraclough: Russia Selects Cannes Entry 'Beanpole' for Oscar Race . In: Variety, October 1, 2019.
  8. ↑ Erik Anderson: 2020 Oscar Predictions: The Shortlists. In: awardswatch.com, December 15, 2019.
  9. ↑ Palmarés de la 65 edición del Festival de San Sebastián, 2017. In: sansebastianfestival.com, September 30, 2017.
  10. ↑ Barbara Schuster: “Space Dogs” wins Vienna Film Prize. In: Blickpunkt: Film, November 6, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Balagow, Kantemir Arturowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Бала́гов, Кантеми́р Арту́рович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Nalchik