Kantemir Balagov

Kantemir Balagov majored in Economics at University of Stavropol and transferred to the University of Nalchik 2011, where Alexander Sokurov had just founded a film department. Balagov made his first 40-minute film „Still Young“ in 2013, followed by short doc „Andyukha“ (2014) about a young man coming down with schizophrenia. „Closeness“ is his first dramatic feature, and won the Critics’ Prize in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at Cannes.