SHORT SUMMER NASTIA KORKIA

  • GERMANY | FRANCE | SERBIA

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  • RUSSIAN

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  • 2025

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  • 101 mins

Katya, 8 years old, spends the summer with her grandparents in the Russian countryside. Time stands still, adults remain silent, and a war in the background destroys lives. Meanwhile, kids are growing up and the clouds fly past.

Producer(s) or Production Company :

Dirk Decker, Andrea Schütte, Natalia Drozd

Screenplay :

Nastia Korkia, Mikhail Bushkov

Director of Photography :

Evgeny Rodin

Editor :

Benjamin Mirguet

Sound :

Simon Poupard

Cast :

Maiia Pleshkevich, Yakov Karykhalin, Aleksandr Karpushin, Aleksandr Feklistov, Vesna Jovanović

Awards - Winner :

Venice FF (Best Debut Film, Mantarraya Award), Chicago IFF (New Directors Competition)

Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection :

São Paulo IFF (Perspectiva Internacional), Viennale (Official Selection)

Nastia Korkia (b.1989) is an independent filmmaker of Russian origin, working between Germany and France. She is trained in directing at the Moscow School of New Cinema, participating in Werner Herzog’s documentary program in Cuba. She earned an MFA from the DocNomads Erasmus Program. Her documentaries and experimental works have screened at Venice, IDFA, Berlin Critics’ Week, DOK Leipzig, True/False, and Sheffield Doc/Fest film festivals. Her documentary feature GES-2 premiered at the 78th Venice FF. Her shorts include DRAMATIC AND MILD (2018), ALMOST SPRING (2021), and DREAMS ABOUT PUTIN (2023). SHORT SUMMER is her debut fiction feature.