Tina Barkalaya
Director · b. 1972
Graduate of the directing department of VGIK. She became famous as a music video director and advertising director. She has shot over 300 commercials and clips, many of which have won prestigious awards such as the Cannes Lions and others. In 2023, her full-length debut, Tales of Hoffmann, received a special prize from the Russia TV channel at the Koroche film festival, and also represented Russia at the Goa International Film Festival, one of the most significant festivals in India.
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Movie6.2MusicRomanceHow to become a star? Thorny path to Olympus. Young Zoya Misochkina in the backyard of the provincial town "Lokotki" meets two producers, Pridorozhnyy and Bolotov, from whom the prima donna Irma has just fled. Zoya passionately wants to sing, so she joins in with new acquaintances and finds herself in a large apartment with two seemingly serious gentlemen, and with close acquaintance, half-crazy touching clowns. Zoya's life turns upside down. Vocal lessons, beauty salons, gyms, presentations, all this should turn an unknown nondescript girl into a new pop star.
Movie6.3ComedyDramaMoscow, 1986, the heat of Perestroika. Borya is an average clumsy teenager who is miraculously admitted to the legendary Bolshoi Ballet School. The boy is convinced that he will become a ballet dancer like his father, Mikhail Baryshnikov. But is this father real or imaginary?