Kseniya Zueva Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Kseniya Zueva
Directing
Biography
Kseniya Ivanovna Zueva (Russian: Ксе́ния Ива́новна Зу́ева; born 10 June 1990, Moscow) is a Russian filmmaker, actress, designer and model. Kseniya Zueva was born in the family of an English teacher and an engineer. She studied at the Serov Children's Art School, as well as at the Voskhod Children's Music School. She studied at the Moscow Art Theater Studio School "MKHAT" (the course of Roman Kozak and Dmitry Brusnikin). In 2012, she graduated from the Theater Institute im. Boris Shchukin (course of Valentina Nikolaenko). Worked in the "Lenkom Theater" and in "The Other Theater". In 2012, she wrote the first draft of the script for her upcoming feature film "Nearest and Dearest". In 2013, she entered the higher courses of screenwriters and directors (workshop of Vladimir Khotinenko, Pavel Finn, Vladimir Fenchenko), where she made a lot of short films and one of them, "Gelya", perfectly defended her diploma. Ksenia Zueva is the author of the script and director of the video for the song "Wings" by Peter cash for the Theater of Deaf Actors "Nedoslov". Ksenia's debut directorial film "Nearest and Dearest" participated in the main competition program of Kinotavr, and also received the "Advance" award from the Hollywood Reporter Russia at the MIFF, the Normandy prize for the Best debut at the Russian film Festival in Honfleur in 2019, and many other awards. At "Kinotavr" 2020, Ksenia Zueva will present the second full-length director's work "Intervention", starring Anna chipovskaya.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Waiting for Charlotte Corday
About the path of becoming a talented young man. From early childhood, he was interested in painting and dreamed of becoming an artist. But he had to take special courses and get an education to do this. If you want something badly, even the heavens will be kind to you. Luck smiled on the hero. He gets into the best General education institution. The guy now goes there every day, and gets the information that a true art critic should have. Everyone who studies here comes from very wealthy families. The only person who got here from the people is the main character. He is not particularly eager to find friends, and the surrounding guys perceive him as an eyesore. The most well-mannered just ignore the guy. In such an atmosphere, it is difficult to study normally, you need to abstract and try to achieve your goals. Will the guy be able to finish school? Would no one be friends with him?
14 Steps
Anna is studying in Moscow for a few years now. She lives in a dorm. Since a long time she hasn't visited her home town, where her family lives. She learned to live in a big city. She has a boyfriend and they are planning to move in together in his Moscow apartment. It seems that she has erased the past from her life. One day a man comes into her life and disrupts all her plans. A man she remembers too well.
Stroboscope
A person runs away from pursuers, and he manages to escape. But that does not mean that he is now safe.
Russian Spleen
The three not-so-lucky guys are having the most difficult, weirdest and funniest day of their lives. Meanwhile, in Moscow, a gang of Kyrgyz conspirators begins to wield, a sexist gynecologist and a feminist traumatologist come to work, a film producer is cheating on the Motherland, and clay policemen are uncovering their batons. The only question is which of these meetings will become fatal for our friends.
Conference
Many years after a deadly terrorist siege in a Moscow theatre, survivor Natalya returns to the crime scene to hold a memorial evening, finally able to confront her survivor's guilt and her estranged daughter and husband.
Production
Gelya
Gelya is a full girl 22 years old, lives in a cramped apartment on the outskirts of the city with his despotic mother an invalid, and his entire life is dedicated to her. One day, fate sends her a chance to change all that and puts it in front of a choice...
Nearest and Dearest
A family living on the outskirts of Moscow are mired in quarrels, discomfort and mutual oppression. They spit negative emotions at each other, forgetting about love, compassion and God. A tragedy will take them through a belated catharsis.
Gelya
Gelya is a full girl 22 years old, lives in a cramped apartment on the outskirts of the city with his despotic mother an invalid, and his entire life is dedicated to her. One day, fate sends her a chance to change all that and puts it in front of a choice...
Gelya
Gelya is a full girl 22 years old, lives in a cramped apartment on the outskirts of the city with his despotic mother an invalid, and his entire life is dedicated to her. One day, fate sends her a chance to change all that and puts it in front of a choice...
Обратно
This is a story about how a Man helped a Man. Ksenia Zueva made a documentary about her friend, neurosurgeon Dr. Vijay Dzhafarov, who performed a unique operation, relieving a young man from Rybinsk from a sudden painful illness. The doctor and the patient share their experiences with Ksenia Zueva. This documentary is not only Ksenia Zueva's directorial work, it is also her debut as a cameraman and composer.
Обратно
This is a story about how a Man helped a Man. Ksenia Zueva made a documentary about her friend, neurosurgeon Dr. Vijay Dzhafarov, who performed a unique operation, relieving a young man from Rybinsk from a sudden painful illness. The doctor and the patient share their experiences with Ksenia Zueva. This documentary is not only Ksenia Zueva's directorial work, it is also her debut as a cameraman and composer.
Обратно
This is a story about how a Man helped a Man. Ksenia Zueva made a documentary about her friend, neurosurgeon Dr. Vijay Dzhafarov, who performed a unique operation, relieving a young man from Rybinsk from a sudden painful illness. The doctor and the patient share their experiences with Ksenia Zueva. This documentary is not only Ksenia Zueva's directorial work, it is also her debut as a cameraman and composer.
Intervention
Masha is a young girl from the suburbs from an extremely poor family. She lives in her reality, where she cares for her grandmother and her younger brother, and dreams of her own family and a husband; she badly longs for warmth, love and care. She knows nothing about her serious illness. Her life abruptly changes after a meeting with Matvei Sergeevich, a cardiologist who saves her life.
The Shimmering
Two complete strangers meet each other at the dramatic and sad funeral of a very young man. They are affected by the strong feelings and emotions caused by death and they find themselves in the same bed, experiencing an inexplicably strong attraction to each other. They will spend several passionate days and nights together in one apartment, in a strange erotic adventure, isolated from the world and reality, during which they will have a complete rethink of life, each in their own way. Until, finally, one of them realises that the obsession has led them too far, and the adventure takes a dangerous turn. Perhaps one of them is not who they seem and poses a threat.
The Shimmering
Two complete strangers meet each other at the dramatic and sad funeral of a very young man. They are affected by the strong feelings and emotions caused by death and they find themselves in the same bed, experiencing an inexplicably strong attraction to each other. They will spend several passionate days and nights together in one apartment, in a strange erotic adventure, isolated from the world and reality, during which they will have a complete rethink of life, each in their own way. Until, finally, one of them realises that the obsession has led them too far, and the adventure takes a dangerous turn. Perhaps one of them is not who they seem and poses a threat.
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