Kira Kovalenko

Kira Kovalenko was born in Nalchik. She graduated from Alexander Sokurov’s directing workshop at Kabardino-Balkarian State University in 2015. Unclenching The Fists marks her second feature film, as Kira Kovalenko having madeher directorial debut in 2016 with Sofichka, which premiered at the Tallinn International Film Festival (Black Nights Film Festival).

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Films by this director

Unclenching the Fists

(Razzhimaya kulaki, Russia, France, 2021)

Directed by: Kira Kovalenko

PHOTOGRAPHY: Pavel Fomintsev

Synopsis:

The small mining town of Mizur lies high in the mountains of North Ossetia betweensteep cliffs. Zaur has settled his family here. He keeps his sons and daughter on a shortleash, blind to the line that separates fatherly concern from overprotectiveness. Hiseldest, Akim, has already run off to the nearest city, Rostov, to find work. Meanwhile,his youngest, Dakko, isn’t entirely sure &...

color, 97'

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