Дух Oгня

Дух Oгня

2026

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Sanding Dreams

Spirit of Fire
2026
international
debut film
festival

Russian Competition

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Sanding Dreams

Pasha studies to be a aerospace engineer at a prestigious university in St. Petersburg and dreams of space. His teachers regard him as a great talent and foresee success for him. Suddenly, he receives sad news from home and goes to help his mother and younger brother in his remote native village of Shoyna, where houses sink into the sand. But can he let his dream go?

Director: Anton Mamykin
Screenwriter: Anton Mamykin
Producer: Ivan Yakovenko, Tatiana Sharkova, Andrei Shirgin
Cinematographer: Vladimir Borisov
Music: Gennady Medvedev
Production Designer: Zlata Kalmina
Cast: Mark Eydelshteyn, Daria Ekamasova, Nikita Konkin, Sofia Vorontsova
Russia
2025
93 min.

Director: Anton Mamykin

Director and screenwriter. Graduated from Free Cinema film school (course of Pavel Bardin) in 2017. His diploma film "White on Black" participated in and won awards at national and international film festivals. Multiple pitching competitions winner with his original scripts. His directorial filmography also includes shorts "Shells for a Girl", "In Private", "Terra Incognita", "Preobrazhenskaya Square" and series "The First Time". "Sanding Dreams" is his feature debut.