Russian director Kantemir Balagov has said he is quitting filmmaking. He wrote about it on the night of April 6 on Twitter, then deleted his account on this social network, as well as on Instagram*.
” I’m everywhere. Two films are more than enough,” Balagov wrote.
Kantemir Balagov graduated from the studio of Alexander Sokurov at Kabardino-Balkaria University. He made his directorial debut in 2017 with the film Crowded. At the Cannes Film Festival, the film won the FIPRESCI Prize in the Un Certain Regard program. He received a similar award for his second feature ‘Heavy Tail’ in 2019. Dylda was also nominated by Russia for an Oscar and received Best Director at Cannes.
Kantemir Balagov participated in the filming of the HBO series based on the video game of the same name The Last of Us, but left the project due to “creative differences”. The Hollywood Reporter writing about the fact that Balagov planned to make the third feature film Butterfly Jam about the relationship between father and son – emigrants from Kabardino-Balkaria in New Jersey.
After the start of the military operation in Ukraine, Kantemir Balagov left Russia and supported Ukraine.
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