Aleksey Fedorchenko

Biography

Aleksey Stanislavovich Fedorchenko (Russian: Алексе́й Станисла́вович Федо́рченко; born September 29, 1966; Sol-Iletsk) is a Russian film and documentary director, who won accolades at the Venice Film Festival with the mockumentary First on the Moon (2005) and later with Silent Souls (2010), a magical realist tale about the long-extinct Finnic tribe of Merya. His works have been awarded prizes at the largest national and international festivals, such as Venice and Rome IFF, IFF Black Nights, and ...