Directing

Timofey Zhalnin

Born March 17, 1981 · Novokuznetsk, USSR (Russia) (age 45)

Director, screenwriter. Born in Novokuznetsk in 1981. In 2012 graduated from the St Petersburg State University for Film and Television (GUKiT), majoring in direction of fiction film (class of S. Ovcharov). His film “F5” won the Kinotavr. Shorts competition in 2013, and received top awards at festivals such as St Anna, Message to Man, PiterKit, Kinoproba, Art-Kino, Sehnsüchte (Germany), etc.

Known For

Katia and Gala, the students of Chelyabinsk Institute of Culture, are going to an international festival to present their choreographic performance. The girls are quite sure that their contemporary performance will win over the sophisticated audience, so fame, a tour and the world of top art are just around the corner... There's only one little thing left to do, win the Grand-Prix of the festival!

Aquarius

Aquarius · 2016

MovieFantasyMusic

This film is a metaphor for who we are, for where we come from? A secret held in the abyss. To read the message - through fear and prejudice, from imitation to communion, from meditation to movement. Dance to the horizon - from points of no return. The irony of our metamorphosis - in order to grow, the seed must die.

Coupled

Coupled · 2019

A young couple Andrei and Nadya get lost in a deep Siberian forest. It’s where they start their thorny way of fighting inner fears and working on the mistakes they made in the past. The forest is a metaphor of life where this couple has gone astray. Or maybe it’s the garden of Eden to which the persecuted have finally found their way back.

Driven

MovieActionCrime

A rich business man with the aid of a corrupt police unit attempt to hunt down in order to kill and an ex-business associate and family member after he escapes a failed execution.

Hypnosis

Hypnosis · 2025

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

The story of three friends: a private detective with the ability to read minds, a lawyer with the gift of seeing the future of a person and a priest with the gift of seeing the past. All of them, thanks to their abilities, have settled into life quite well. But at some point, someone appears on the horizon who wants to take revenge on them for what they did in the distant past.

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Katia and Gala, the students of Chelyabinsk Institute of Culture, are going to an international festival to present their choreographic performance. The girls are quite sure that their contemporary performance will win over the sophisticated audience, so fame, a tour and the world of top art are just around the corner... There's only one little thing left to do, win the Grand-Prix of the festival!

Director

Aquarius

Aquarius · 2016

MovieFantasyMusic

This film is a metaphor for who we are, for where we come from? A secret held in the abyss. To read the message - through fear and prejudice, from imitation to communion, from meditation to movement. Dance to the horizon - from points of no return. The irony of our metamorphosis - in order to grow, the seed must die.

Director

Coupled

Coupled · 2019

A young couple Andrei and Nadya get lost in a deep Siberian forest. It’s where they start their thorny way of fighting inner fears and working on the mistakes they made in the past. The forest is a metaphor of life where this couple has gone astray. Or maybe it’s the garden of Eden to which the persecuted have finally found their way back.

Director

Driven

MovieActionCrime

A rich business man with the aid of a corrupt police unit attempt to hunt down in order to kill and an ex-business associate and family member after he escapes a failed execution.

Supervising Editor

Hypnosis

Hypnosis · 2025

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

The story of three friends: a private detective with the ability to read minds, a lawyer with the gift of seeing the future of a person and a priest with the gift of seeing the past. All of them, thanks to their abilities, have settled into life quite well. But at some point, someone appears on the horizon who wants to take revenge on them for what they did in the distant past.

Director