luda Kuropyatnikova
cinematographer
ludmilakuropyatnikova@gmail.com
represented by TATIQUE
cinematographer
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«New» // fiction, 23 min, dir. Zhenia Kazankina, prod. STEREoTACTIC 2024
«STORIES WE TELL» // fiction, 6 min, dir. LiDYA Leiber 2024
Shot on 35mm, in 10 hours on location in Ortigia, Italy, during Terre di Cinema, Cine Campus residency program
Shot on 35mm, in 10 hours on location in Ortigia, Italy, during Terre di Cinema, Cine Campus residency program
«RIO» // fiction, 22 min, dir. Zhenia Kazankina 2019
«Empty rooms» // experimental, documentary film, 5 min, dir. Zhenia Kazankina 2022
«THREADS OF sUPPORT» // experimental, documentary, 10 min, dir. Olya Korsun 2026
«Continuity of parks» // experimental, 11min, dir. Zhenia Kazankina 2022
«Chudische» // Straight8 2019 submission one roll of super8 film no editing
Jagodki // super short film, 2 min, dir.Zhenia Kazankina 2018
fashion & commercial
love to knit
RAZUMNO // RUBRA
The blueprint x gucci
TSUM motion shop windows
RAZUMNO // goodall
unifarious
The Blueprint x Tiffany // pt.1
JENEK
The Blueprint x Tiffany // pt.2
THE cultt // lost bag
5 O'Coat
BEFREE // CO:CREATE HUB
New
fiction, 23 min, dir. Zhenia Kazankina 2024
prod. Stereotactic, Minerva Pictures, Il Varco
with support of Orvieto Cinema Fest, Moonwalk Studio
Outskirts of Moscow. A girl comes to an unfamiliar apartment to look after a dog. After a while,
she realizes that the owner of the apartment has disappeared, and now she finds herself among
a chain of people who have been looking after the owner's dog and replacing each other in this
apartment for many years. In search of the apartment owner, the girl is actually searching for
her identity.
Awards
Voices Film Festival — Best Short Film
Aigio International Short Film Festival — Best Script Award & Theo Angelopoulos Award
Selections
GoShort Nijmegen Film Festival
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival
International Short Film Festival of Cyprus
TiSFF – Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival
Moscow International Film Festival
Yerevan International Short Film Festival
Bašta Fest
Zerkalo Film Festival
Film Front International Short Film Festival
IL VARCO Film Festival
Spicy Indie International Film Festival
Beijing International Short Film Festival
Philosophical Film Festival
FILMAY International Short Film Festival Kumanovo
Fine Line Film Festival
prod. Stereotactic, Minerva Pictures, Il Varco
with support of Orvieto Cinema Fest, Moonwalk Studio
Outskirts of Moscow. A girl comes to an unfamiliar apartment to look after a dog. After a while,
she realizes that the owner of the apartment has disappeared, and now she finds herself among
a chain of people who have been looking after the owner's dog and replacing each other in this
apartment for many years. In search of the apartment owner, the girl is actually searching for
her identity.
Awards
Voices Film Festival — Best Short Film
Aigio International Short Film Festival — Best Script Award & Theo Angelopoulos Award
Selections
GoShort Nijmegen Film Festival
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival
International Short Film Festival of Cyprus
TiSFF – Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival
Moscow International Film Festival
Yerevan International Short Film Festival
Bašta Fest
Zerkalo Film Festival
Film Front International Short Film Festival
IL VARCO Film Festival
Spicy Indie International Film Festival
Beijing International Short Film Festival
Philosophical Film Festival
FILMAY International Short Film Festival Kumanovo
Fine Line Film Festival
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RIO
fiction, 22 min, dir. Zhenia Kazankina 2019
Paulina lives and works in a small hotel in the northern town near the border. She and her friend Nadia dream of a different, paradise and exotic world. One day a stranger arrives at the hotel. Torn between a man and a friend, Paulina is trying to understand who she really is and what she wants most in her life.
Awards
Mikeldi Award for Best Fiction Short Film / ZINEBI FF
Best International Film / Tel Aviv International Student FF
Best Youth Film / Sehsüchte FF
Gold Frame & Audience Award / Short Focus FF
Best International Short Film / Orvieto Cinema Fest
Best NextGen Film / Nashville FF
Special Jury Mention / Shnit.Russia
Best Cinematography / VGIK International Student FF
Selections
Palm Springs International ShortFest
The International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao
TiSFF Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival
Curtas Vila do Conde Festival
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival
Poitiers Film Festival
London Short Film Festival
Festival Mecal Barcelona
FILMFEST Dresden
Shnit Short film festival
Sehsüchte Film Festival
Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival
Zlin film festival
Malatesta Short Film Festival
Short Focus Film Festival
Orvieto Cinema Fest
Denver Film Festival October
5th EUREKA University Film Festival Columbia
FILMSCHOOLFEST Munich
Scanorama New Baltic Cinema program
Etiuda & Anima International FilmFestival
Visioni Corte Film Festival
Diorama International Film Festival
Euroshorts International Film Festival
Kustendorf Film Festival
BuSho Film Festival
Cinemagic 'On the Pulse' Online Film Festival
CASCADIA Film Festival
Cellu l'art FF
Paulina lives and works in a small hotel in the northern town near the border. She and her friend Nadia dream of a different, paradise and exotic world. One day a stranger arrives at the hotel. Torn between a man and a friend, Paulina is trying to understand who she really is and what she wants most in her life.
Awards
Mikeldi Award for Best Fiction Short Film / ZINEBI FF
Best International Film / Tel Aviv International Student FF
Best Youth Film / Sehsüchte FF
Gold Frame & Audience Award / Short Focus FF
Best International Short Film / Orvieto Cinema Fest
Best NextGen Film / Nashville FF
Special Jury Mention / Shnit.Russia
Best Cinematography / VGIK International Student FF
Selections
Palm Springs International ShortFest
The International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao
TiSFF Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival
Curtas Vila do Conde Festival
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival
Poitiers Film Festival
London Short Film Festival
Festival Mecal Barcelona
FILMFEST Dresden
Shnit Short film festival
Sehsüchte Film Festival
Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival
Zlin film festival
Malatesta Short Film Festival
Short Focus Film Festival
Orvieto Cinema Fest
Denver Film Festival October
5th EUREKA University Film Festival Columbia
FILMSCHOOLFEST Munich
Scanorama New Baltic Cinema program
Etiuda & Anima International FilmFestival
Visioni Corte Film Festival
Diorama International Film Festival
Euroshorts International Film Festival
Kustendorf Film Festival
BuSho Film Festival
Cinemagic 'On the Pulse' Online Film Festival
CASCADIA Film Festival
Cellu l'art FF
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Empty rooms
experimental, documentary film, 5 min, dir. Zhenia Kazankina 2022
Following a mass emigration from Russia, a poignant love letter emerges in the abandoned home spaces of friends and family.
Awards
Ischia Film Festival — Best Short Film (Location Negata Section)
Vertigo Film Fest — Best Short Documentary
The Laurel Branch Award — Special Mention
Selections
GoShort Nijmegen Film Festival
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival
ShorTS Film Festival
Message to Man Film Festival
Aesthetica Short Film Festival
Encounters Film Festival
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
Annual CPH Film Festival
Bogotá Short Film Festival – BOGOSHORTS
Amsterdam Lift-Off Film Festival
Entrevues Belfort Film Festival
London Short Film Festival
IDFF Artdocfest/Riga
True/False Film Fest
Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil
Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival
Lille International Short Film Festival
Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata – FestiFreak
Caminhos Film Festival
Fine Line Film Festival
Following a mass emigration from Russia, a poignant love letter emerges in the abandoned home spaces of friends and family.
Awards
Ischia Film Festival — Best Short Film (Location Negata Section)
Vertigo Film Fest — Best Short Documentary
The Laurel Branch Award — Special Mention
Selections
GoShort Nijmegen Film Festival
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival
ShorTS Film Festival
Message to Man Film Festival
Aesthetica Short Film Festival
Encounters Film Festival
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
Annual CPH Film Festival
Bogotá Short Film Festival – BOGOSHORTS
Amsterdam Lift-Off Film Festival
Entrevues Belfort Film Festival
London Short Film Festival
IDFF Artdocfest/Riga
True/False Film Fest
Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil
Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival
Lille International Short Film Festival
Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata – FestiFreak
Caminhos Film Festival
Fine Line Film Festival
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Continuity of parks
experimental, 11min, dir. Zhenia Kazankina 2022
Deprived of their familiar context, the heroes of ancient Greek myths find themselves in a Moscow park.
Selections
Tirana Film Festival (WP)
Reykjavík International Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival
Orvieto Cinema Fest
FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival
Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival
Bosphorus Film Festival
IMDB
Director's notes
Deprived of their familiar context, the heroes of ancient Greek myths find themselves in a Moscow park.
Selections
Tirana Film Festival (WP)
Reykjavík International Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival
Orvieto Cinema Fest
FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival
Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival
Bosphorus Film Festival
IMDB
Director's notes
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Jagodki
super short film, 2 min, dir.Zhenia Kazankina 2018
A lovely meditation on simple pleasures. Further inspired by the ringing sounds of Carl Orff's xylophone inventions and films of Eric Rohmer, "Jagodki" is a reflection on the nostalgic mysteries and quiet sensuality of this special kind of boredom.
Selections
Sarajevo Film Festival
tv.booooooom
A lovely meditation on simple pleasures. Further inspired by the ringing sounds of Carl Orff's xylophone inventions and films of Eric Rohmer, "Jagodki" is a reflection on the nostalgic mysteries and quiet sensuality of this special kind of boredom.
Selections
Sarajevo Film Festival
tv.booooooom
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Luda Kuropyatnikova
Born, grew and graduated in Russia. Freelance cinematographer. In love with Kodak motion film and experimental visual.
Education
Rodchenko Moscow School of photography and multimedia // 2012
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) director of photography, MA // 2014 - 2019
Filmography
COLPO DI SOLE // short film dir. Lydia Leiber 2026 IMDb
prod. Intermezzo, ShoreLight Pictures
STORIES WE TELL // short film dir. Lydia Leiber 2024
prod. Terre di Cinema, Cine Campus
NEW // short film dir. Zhenia Kazankina 2024 IMDb
prod. Stereotactic
EMPTY ROOMS // short doc film dir. Zhenia Kazankina 2022 IMDb
prod. Stereotactic
CONTINUITY OF PARKS // short film dir. Zhenia Kazankina 2022 IMDb
RIO // short film dir. Zhenia Kazankina 2019 IMDb
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Threads of Support
A poetic yet detailed exploration of the intricate history and political ecology of manual silk production in Uzbekistan’s Fergana Valley, where generations of families sustain the fragile craft through labor, memory, and interspecies collaboration with mulberry trees and silkworms. Moving between artistic essay, documentary and archival research, the film presents silk as a material the production of which demands both complex effort and delicate cooperation across species. It traces the political, ecological, and cultural forces that have placed manual silk production in Uzbekistan—both during the Soviet era and today—under constant threat of disappearance.
Yet handwoven silk endures, carried forward by the resilience of the valley’s people: those who honor its history, who recognize both its beauty and its burdens as lessons rather than obstacles, and who find in silk a livelihood, a thread of continuity between generations, and a quiet strength of identity.
Director, researcher Olya Korsun
Writer Konstantin Koryagin
Director of photography Lyudmila Kuropyatnikova
Executive producer Furqat Palvan-Zade
Executive producer Fahad Al-Attiyah
Producer in Uzbekistan Sabina Suleymanoglu
Yet handwoven silk endures, carried forward by the resilience of the valley’s people: those who honor its history, who recognize both its beauty and its burdens as lessons rather than obstacles, and who find in silk a livelihood, a thread of continuity between generations, and a quiet strength of identity.
Director, researcher Olya Korsun
Writer Konstantin Koryagin
Director of photography Lyudmila Kuropyatnikova
Executive producer Furqat Palvan-Zade
Executive producer Fahad Al-Attiyah
Producer in Uzbekistan Sabina Suleymanoglu
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