BO-BO
Nadya was born with a pathology. She has a large red-burgundy hemangioma on her small face. In the native village Nadya faces the hostility and ridicule of others, furthermore her own family does not accept the girl as she is. Nadya’s grandmother tries to treat her illness with all religious methods she knows, while Nadya’s mother constantly dreams of a surgical operation in Moscow. Nadya just wants to be herself. Her only wish is to sing in the choir. After getting into another mess, she ends up in a Moscow hospital, where meets people like her. But even after the physical problem has been resolved nothing changes in her family’s life.
Director: ANASTASIA KUZINA
Director and scriptwriter. Studied at the St. Petersburg State Institute of Film & TV (Alina Rudnitskaya’s non-fiction film workshop), and then graduated from the directing department of VGIK (class of the Kott brothers and Anna Fenchenko). Her filmography also includes the shorts “Let’s Embrace”, “The Happiest”, “Yushka”, and others. “Bo-Bo” is her feature film debut.