Polina Kapantina

Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Four friends convene at a café and engage in a peculiar game entitled "Empty Space". Thereafter, their paths diverge for a prolonged period. Each endeavours to find self-realisation through various forms of creative activity, seeking to impose their minor and superfluous art upon a vast and indifferent world.

Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • as self

"Closing" is a film almanac made up of nine verses. Instead of a rap beat, there is beer, rain, a beach, a zoo, random conversations, and a city that lives its own life. These are not stories with a beginning and an end, but statements written into the rhythm of the festival, where cinema becomes a way to be together and a way to be alone. Any almanac is a film cypher: everyone goes to the microphone, says their piece, and leaves, leaving room for someone else. "Closing" is exactly that: a collection of voices in which you can hear laughter, fatigue, love, and meaninglessness. This is a film about how cinema closes the day and opens the night.

Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Materialized censorship penetrates reality, encroaching on man and nature. Experimental study of the limits of prohibition.

Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • as self

A film-journey through fleeting and tender dreams, shot with a “loving” video camera.

Movie - 2025, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Polina enjoys shooting videos with her phone. With a camera in hand she has the feeling that she is the sole master of reality. But today things are different. A crazy night gets the better of Polina, sweeping her away into the world of associations and images. Townsfolk turn into mythical characters, frightening and alluring at the same time.