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Director,
Writer
Born in 1989, USSR (Russia)
Kira KOVALENKO
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Кира КОВАЛЕНКО
Kira KOVALENKO
Filmography (extracts)
Director
2021 -
Unclenching The Fists
(Разжимая кулаки) [fiction, 97 mn]
2016 -
Sofichka
(Софичка) [fiction, 78 mn]
Writer
2021 -
Unclenching The Fists
(Разжимая кулаки) from
Kira KOVALENKO
[fiction, 97 mn]
Site :
IMDb
Awards :
Unclenching The Fists
:
Best Screenplay
, Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2021
Prix un certain regard
, Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 2021
Honfleur Main Prize for Best Film
, Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2021
Best directing
, Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2021
Sofichka
:
Gazprom Award
, "Spirit of Fire" International Debut Film Festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2017
Biography
Graduated from the workshop of Alexandre Sokurov in Naltchik in the Caucasus where she was born on December 12, 1989.
After the war, she left Russia to live in Los Angeles with Kantemir Balagov (
Le Monde
, 07/01/2023).
Commentaries and bibliography
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Новые фильмы российских режиссеров в изгнании [Nouveaux films de réalisateurs russes en exil]
, Philip YURYEV,
Тимур АЛИЕВ, 2024, holod.media
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Kovalenko, les étoiles fuyantes du cinéma russe [Kira KOVALENKO, Kantemir BALAGOV]
2023, Le Monde, 7 janvier 2023
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10 лучших российских фильмов 2021 года Версия кинообозревателя «Труда» Леонида Павлючика [10 meilleurs films russes de 2021 selon le journal Trud]
, Leonid PAVLYUCHIK,
2022, trud.ru
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Les poings desserrés
(2021). Un film de Kira Kovalenko
Julien MORVAN, 2022, Perestroikino
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Les poings desserrés
, les yeux ouverts
Hala HABACHE, 2022, lemagducine.fr
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Лучшие фильмы 2021 года: выбор редакции [Les 12 meilleurs films du monde de 2021 selon les lecteurs de Kinopoisk]
2022, kinopoisk.ru
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Лучшие фильмы 2021: выбор «Искусства Кино» [10 meilleurs films du monde en 2021 selon
Iskusstvo Kino
]
2022, kinoart.ru
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Kira Kovalenko:
Unclenching the Fists
(Razzhimaia kulaki, 2021)
, Birgit BEUMERS,
2022, Kinokultura
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Un jeune couple de réalisateurs russes fauchés en pleine ascension
Cécile ORSONI, 2022, vanityfair.fr
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Les Poings desserrés
Florent BOUTET, 2021, lebleudumiroir.fr
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Les Poings desserrés
, Miss Caucase. [Kira Kovalenko, 2021]
Philippe AZOURY, 2021, vanityfair.fr
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CANNES 2021 –
Les Poings desserrés
: S’aimer comme l’on se déteste
Caroline FAUVEL, 2021, Maze.fr
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Cinq raisons de regarder le film russe
Les Poings desserrés
, nominé aux Oscars
Valeria PAÏKOVA, 2021, RUSSIA BEYOND
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Critique :
Les poings desserrés
[2021, Kira Kovalenko]
Mariana HRISTOVA, 2021, cineuropa.org
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Le Festival du cinéma russe à Honfleur: un voyage qui secoue
Maria TCHOBANOV, 2021, RUSSIA BEYOND
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[Cannes 2021, Un certain regard]
Les Poings desserrés
, film-territoire avec un cœur qui bat fort
Geoffrey NABAVIAN, 2021, toutelaculture.com
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Kira Kovalenko:
Sofichka
(2016)
Cassio de OLIVEIRA, 2019, Kinokultura