Renata Dzhalo
Director · Saint Petersburg, Russia
Renata Dzhalo was born in 1997 in Saint Petersburg to a Russian mother and a Bissau Guinean father. In 2021 she graduated from VGIK, where she studied in Alexei Uchitel’s studio of experimental cinema. Her debut feature-length work, the documentary film Lenechka, about composer Leonid Desyatnikov, received an award at the Message to Man IFF. She directed a play based on her own script, Vitya Needs to Leave, which was performed at the School of Modern Drama, House of Cinema and the 8/3 Stage. On This Land is her first experience in feature-length fiction filmmaking.
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TV3.9CrimeDramaThe closed campus of an experimental university on Russian Island. Student Sonya Kimaeva returns from abroad to the academy's dormitory to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend. But during the time that Sonya was absent, the situation has changed dramatically, and now excerpts from the personal diary of the deceased, replete with shocking details, are in the hands of students and teachers. Every day, more and more new secrets of students and teachers of the Academy become known to everyone, thanks to the anonymous blog "Your big secret". And this element cannot be stopped.