Natalya Meshchaninova

The Edge of the Broken Moon

Fourteen-year-old Sonya unexpectedly learns that her mother lied to her about her father's death for many years, and forbade him to communicate with her daughters. Unable to forgive such a betrayal, she runs away from home. Mother and older sister Sasha find Sonya at their old dacha, where no one has visited for many years. Three women are forced to finally talk through all the problems, grievances and fears that have been so carefully hushed up for years. This begins the long journey of restoring family ties.

Release Date:2023-11-02

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1

Three Minutes of Silence

When two spoiled hipsters embark on the rusty trawler for a summer internship, they get much more than what they bargained for. This shabby boat is the floating home of a dozen weary and irritable sailors, whose only priority is making money and not getting killed in the process. Ice-cold waves, incredibly beautiful but severe seascapes, hard labour and tons of stinking fish is the daily menu. The sea is unpredictable, and the upcoming storm is not the main test that awaits the ship’s crew. Their trip to sea, however, turns out to be more serious and more tragic than either of them could have imagined.

Release Date:2023-06-08

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:17

My Little Nighttime Secret

14th year old girl Meera is craving for secure love and support. On New Year's Eve she is trying to get rid of constant nightmare biggest secret looming over her young life. Meera is going to party with friends but a normal teenager life is not for her because of long surpressed home sexual abuse.

Release Date:2023-01-31

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Alyssa

Alyssa is only fifteen, and her teachers are tired of calling her mother into school, while Alyssa’s mother can't understand what is going on with her child. Alyssa then finally learns what has been hidden from her for years: she will soon go completely blind. A little longer, and she will be in total darkness. She vows to live to the fullest while she can and decides that it would be stupid to waste time on school. It is better to grow up fast, earn some easy money, and move to a big and beautiful city. But pretty soon Alyssa's teenage illusions are shattered by reality, and her mother's strategy of pretending that all is well will inevitably lead to disaster.

Release Date:2022-10-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:3

My Mom's Penguins

This is a story about commitment and dedication to one's talent which resonates with the difficult topic of the mother's love deficit that is relevant for many.

Release Date:2021-10-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:8

And That’s It

A pandemic has ravaged the world outside. Julia and Volodya are a couple that suffers from Coronaphobia by taking the safety measurements far too seriously. After anticipating all the possible scenarios and doing breathing exercises, the couple reluctantly goes out to the street, a place, in Volodya’s own words, “full of COVID bastards”. Armored and hysterically, the couple arrives at an ordinary supermarket. Almost turning against each other, their suspicion is translated into episodes of excessive outrages against the local shoppers who, according to the couple, are painfully and inconsiderably carefree. Their mission seems to be a success until they encounter an unmasked shopper. From then on, things go downhill for the main characters.

Release Date:2020-12-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

Storm

Respected police detective Gradov reluctantly turns to crime to find the money to pay for his terminally ill wife’s urgent medical treatment. During an investigation into a string of crimes Gradov begins to fall under suspicion, his colleague Osokin becomes convinced of his guilt and determined to expose him. But Gradov has already sacrificed his integrity and knows that he will stop at nothing to save his wife.

Release Date:2019-09-05

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:6

Late Autumn

A lyrical comedy about elderly people who meet on a dog playground, quarrel terribly, but this conflict ignites mutual interest in them.

Release Date:2018-12-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Polina and Andrey

A short film by the famous Russian director, winner of the Kinotavr Boris Khlebnikov, specially shot for the charity auction Action! 2018.

Release Date:2018-12-02

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

An Ordinary Woman

Marina is in her late 30s, she has a successful business and a close-knit family. Her husband is a surgeon and her daughters study at fancy establishments. To everybody her life seems perfect. Though, it is all just a facade concealing the real problems: her husband has a mistress, her elder daughter is a slacker and drug-dealer, her youngest is a sociopath. Well, Marina herself is not really a flower-lady, but a brothel-keeper who is hiding her dark business from everyone. The truth may come out when a girl of Marina’s is found dead.

Release Date:2018-10-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:15

Core of the World

Egor is a vet at a training facility for hunting dogs in a remote region of the country. Surrounded by foxes, deer, badgers, and dogs, he lives in a small building next to the house of the facility's master. He treats the dogs, cleans the kennels, oversees the workers, and meets with clients and their dogs. It's easier for him to get along with dogs than with people. Egor is willing to take on any job to get closer to the facility's master and his near and dear. He wants the impossible - to become a member of that family.

Release Date:2018-09-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:17

My Love

Тrue Kazakh girls don’t marry Russians. This is what grandma Zeinegul believes in. But her beloved granddaughter disobeyed her will. Many years later the girl comes back to Kazakhstan. Her mother drinks, her grandma prays, her father got married again, but she wants to take a picture of her whole family, just like the one they took years ago when she was a child. The picture of the family she loves and hates so much.

Release Date:2018-09-19

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Anna's War

The entire family of a 6-year-old Anna dies in the mass coordinated execution of Jews. The mother covers up Anna with her own body, and the girl miraculously survives. For the next few hundred days Anna hides in the disused chimney at the Nazi Commandant's office. From her shelter she watches as life passes her by until the village is liberated from the Nazi. In these inhuman conditions Anna not only survives but keeps her humanity. Many factors help her: memories from the life swept away by war, the cultural foundations laid by the parents and a friend who saves her from loneliness.

Release Date:2018-03-15

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:27

The Red Bracelets

The series tells about a group of teenagers in a children's hospital, about their growing up and struggling with circumstances, about how the characters are friends and love, respond to the challenges of fate and make principled choices.

Release Date:2017-11-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:1

Arrhythmia

Oleg is a young gifted paramedic. His wife Katya works as a nurse at the hospital emergency department. She loves Oleg, but is fed up with him caring more about patients than her. She tells him she wants a divorce. The new head of Oleg’s EMA department is a cold-hearted manager who’s got new strict rules to implement. Oleg couldn’t care less about the rules – he’s got lives to save; his attitude gets him in trouble with the new boss. The crisis at work coincides with the personal life crisis. Caught up between their patients, alcohol-fueled off-shifts, and an evolving health care system, Oleg and Katya have to find the binding force that will keep them together.

Release Date:2017-10-12

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:140

Go to

Varya is sixteen. Varya doesn't go to school. Varya asks that she be called Sasha. Varya has a goal - to go to St. Petersburg. She plays the violin in the train, earning a trip. But the trip of a dream turns out to be a dangerous adventure, in which everything goes not according to plan...

Release Date:2017-06-04

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Psevdezh i simulyakry

The slang word "Psevdezh" is a free translation of the philosophical term "simulacrum" and means a sign that does not have a signified object in reality. The heroes of the film are trying to understand whether the activity of others is this very pseudo-death. A team of young actors begins to work on a performance that is dedicated to conceptual artists, heroes of the 90s. In the course of work, the two creative groups constantly collide, and with each meeting, both in actors and in artists, mutual irritation will grow.

Release Date:2014-06-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Hope Factory

Industrial city of Norilsk: factories, cold, chemical air. The only desire of young people living here is to leave, against all odds. A docu-style, emotionally-driven drama about a young girl desperately fighting for an escape which is so blurry, and for love which is so insecure.

Release Date:2014-01-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:13

Another Year

He's an unemployed guy who earns some money by giving lifts to strangers. She's a graphic designer who just got her first job. The film tracks their relationship - and the way it gradually melts away - throughout a year. A subtle, moving portrait of an immature love that breaks down easily.

Release Date:2014-01-15

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:14

Till Night Do Us Part

A genuine satiric comedy, based on real conversations - both amusing and sad - overheard by a journalist in one of the most expensive Moscow restaurants. Hilarious and revealing, this is a film about women who choose between affection and money, film producers that don't really know what they're filming, and weary businessmen who sometimes say screw it, down a shot and leave their mother-in-laws to pay the bill. But most of all, it's about true love that favors noisy kitchen floor over gilded fine-dining halls.

Release Date:2012-10-11

Department:Camera

Job:Additional Director of Photography

Vote Count:9

Х-Х

A whole ethnographic study on the topic of who are the fans of "Leningrad", performed against all the laws of the genre. The musicians themselves act as accomplices in the filming process here — one of the cameras, for example, is fixed on Shnurov's stomach. Other cameras follow the fans of the band, quite funny and accurately recording their emotions and actions from hugs to fights and transmitting the atmosphere of unbridled fun and off-scale adrenaline, which is famous for "Leningrad". Terribly funny, tearfully cute, sometimes scary - the effect of a full-length presence.

Release Date:2012-06-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

School

9 "A" was an exemplary class, while their class teacher was Nosov Anatoly Germanovich - a strong and experienced teacher, recognized in 2009 as the Teacher of the Year. After his sudden illness, 9 "A" is left without a strong hand. The myth of the exemplary class is crumbling, discipline is cracking at the seams. Nosov's granddaughter, Anya Nosova, is perhaps the most difficult teenager of the school. A new student Ilya Epifanov provokes situations in which students manifest themselves from unexpected sides, turning upside down the usual idea of ​​them as classmates and teachers. None of the teachers want to take on the class, which of the model has become the most difficult.

Release Date:2010-01-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:69

Vote Count:18

Herbarium

Beauty contest in the retirement home? “Horror! – you would say. – They barely breathe”. Not at all! Who said that womanhood, beauty and eye shine die before their owners do? Everybody thinks their only consolation are shelves with drugs. But it is revealed that among these shelves the eternal women steel is hidden. And the old ladies manage it very good.

Release Date:2007-06-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Anna's Hands

She lives with the abbreviation CODA (hearing child of deaf parents), but carefully hides the family history from her husband. The girl is afraid to give birth to a deaf child and secretly drinks contraceptives. One day she finds out about the tragic death of her brother and returns to her hometown for a while. The official investigation believes that an accident occurred, but Anna categorically disagrees with the verdict and begins her own investigation. She remembers the mysterious basement where her brother regularly met with a strange man. As a child, Anna did not dare to go into the abandoned house, but now, for the sake of the truth, the girl is ready to look into the eyes of her fear.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1