OUR YEAR
Taras, Kolya and Lyosha are childhood friends. A year ago, on the last day of December their lives went in different directions. The guys shook hands and agreed: “In a year we will meet on the shore and celebrated the New Year! With fireworks and all. Because we have never done it before.” The long-awaited day has come. The lives of Kolya and Lyosha are going as planned but Taras has fallen in love.
Director: NIKOLAI KOVALENKO
Born in 2001 in Moscow. In 2023 graduated from the class of directing of Ivan I. Tverdovsky at the Design School of the Higher School of Economics. Participated in national and international film festivals. His graduation work “Lelera” (2023, short) won the Grand Prix and the N.S.Mikhalkov Award at the St. Anna
Festival of Student and Debut Works. His filmography also includes the shorts “V” (2021), “The Place of Force” (2021, doc.), “Anna” (2022). In 2025 completed his feature debut “Another World”.