BIO
Documentary filmmaker and film editor. Based in Paris.
After the war in Ukraine began on February 24, 2022, Faina emigrated from Russia and started exploring the topic of emigration in greater depth. She became a co-author of the documentary series Goodbye, Empire!, which was filmed in Georgia, Armenia, Sri Lanka, and other countries where those opposing the war and the Russian regime had sought refuge.
While in exile, Faina completed the editing of the documentary film My Imprisonment, which was secretly filmed by the director inside a psychiatric hospital. The film later received critical acclaim and was screened at several film festivals across the post-Soviet space.
In 2023, Faina moved from Georgia to France, settling in Paris, where she began working with her co-author on a post-documentary film about the descendants of Russian émigrés in France. The project focuses on the first wave of emigration after 1917 and the contemporary wave following 2022. As part of this project, a contract was signed with the French production company Itsi Bitsi Films.
Currently, Faina continues to live in Paris, working on her film and editing independent film projects.
CINEMA PROJECTS
2020, director and editor, My Mystery
2023-pres., director and editor, Do Not Touch The Exhibits
OTHER WORKS
LENS BASED ART PROJECTS :
ANTI CLONAZEPAM MANIFEST
A lot of emigrants to Georgia become addicts of tranquilizers and other dangerous medicines. This video is a manifestation against usage of tranquilizers.
ROUGE, ROUGE, ROUGE
Work about the protests in Kyrgyzstan in early 2022, photos of crippled people on the background of a puppy eating on buffalo head, led by a psychedelic poem by Henri Chopin. This work talks on human desire for blood, quick adaptation of humans towards situations, when blood starts to absorb the world.
26.02.2022
Phone call between a granddaughter in Moscow and her grandmother in Kiev two days after a brutal invasion in Ukraine started by Russia. There is no misunderstanding between them, both are in solidarity in their opinion on war. So this conversation is not about conflict, and consists of family enmity – we constantly hear about such things after the start of the war. But in general pain and love toward each other between close people. Conversation of two women accomplished by abstract video shots from the ongoing war.