Synopsis
Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. As a young adult, Xenia Sigalova went with her parents to the West. Almost two decades later she returns and hardly recognises her home country. Nowadays she is a filmmaker – what has happened to her friends? (33rd DOK.fest Munich)With: Vladimir Erin, Roman Rubanov, Alexander Karpekin
Director Xenia Sigalova was born in Voronezh, Russia in 1980. After her highschool degree she studied Graphic Design at the arts college in Voronezh, before she migrated with her parents to Germany in 1998. She graduated in documentary filmmaking at the University of Television and Film Munich in 2018. Her current feature documentary film MY RUSSIAN SPRING is her diploma project. Besides her studies she worked for German Television.