ODIN MALENKIY NOCHNOY SEKRET / MY LITTLE NIGHTTIME SECRET

Mira is fourteen. Her life is fine: she has a mother, a stepfather, a little sister, there are gifts for Christmas, and a cat. She has a girlfriend, and she is even allowed to party at her place the night of the New Year. But there is something wrong about Mira. One little nighttime secret.

NATALIJA MEŠČANINOVA / NATALYA MESHCHANINOVA

Natalya Meshchaninova (Russia, 1982) graduated from Kuban State University, where she specialised in film and TV directing. She worked for a TV station in Krasnodar for a period of time. After her documentary debut, Herbarium (2007), she decided to move to Moscow to pursue her career in filmmaking further. Her feature debut, The Hope Factory (2014) had its world premiere at IFF Rotterdam. Since then, she has continued to make feature films. Core of the World (2018) won the Grand Prize at the Kinotavr Film Festival in Sochi. She was awarded a grant from Hubert Bals Fund for script and project development in 2021, and the result is her film My Little Nighttime Secret (2023).