Anna Rudikova

Documentary Filmmaker

Anna Rudikova

About

I make socially relevant films, explorations of reality, and festival documentary cinema. I also create science-pop programmes and commercial social video content — as director, producer, and author.

With a background in journalism and ten years in TV production, I bring quick learning and deep engagement to every project. A second degree in documentary film directing shaped my focus on real-life narratives.

Languages: English, Russian, Italian

Selected Films

2026

After 2022

Director, screenwriter, editing. CurrentTimeDoc

An entrepreneur sentenced for a small donation to an anti-corruption fund. He leaves Russia straight from the courtroom. In Montenegro, he starts over — with his family, from scratch. This is one of the episodes of the documentary project «After 2022»: real immigration stories about what is possible. Produced with a minimal budget. Full-cycle production management across all stages.

2025

The Story of a Russian Deserter

Director, screenwriter. CurrentTimeDoc

An engineer from Moscow, mobilized and sent to war. He deserts and flees through Uzbekistan, Georgia, Turkey — country after country, nowhere safe enough to stop.

2023–2025

European Values

Director, screenwriter, editing. CurrentTimeDoc

How do European countries put their basic EU values into practice? Stories about justice, freedom, culture and human dignity — told through people and real life, not politics. Creative leadership of the project from concept development and team building.

2024

Message to Sasha

Director, screenwriter, editing. VPRO

Sasha Skochilenko replaced price tags with anti-war messages and was sentenced to seven years. From prison she sends drawings. Outside, those who love her most fight for her freedom. The film offers a visceral sense of what is happening to a society that disagrees with the Russian government.

2023

Passing Through

Director, screenwriter. VPRO

An underground network in Saint Petersburg secretly shelters Ukrainian refugees and helps them escape Russia. Quiet courage in a time of fear.

2023

The Last Russian Aleut

Director, screenwriter. CurrentTimeDoc

On a remote island at the edge of the world, the last people of a vanishing culture live on. A story about roots, solitude, and what it means to belong.

2023

Warriors from Buryatia

Director, screenwriter. CurrentTimeDoc

Buryatia has one of the highest death tolls since February 2022. Families grieve while propaganda fills the silence. How do you mourn when the state won't let you?

2022

Russia.Re/cycle.Sakhalin

Director, screenwriter. CurrentTimeDoc

Sakhalin drowns in waste while people try to change things from within. A film about what happens when one person decides the mess is their problem too.

2022

Fish Island Sakhalin

Director, screenwriter. CurrentTimeDoc

On Sakhalin, fishing is life itself. But poaching has become the only way to survive. Where does law end and necessity begin?

2022

A Free Hectare for the People in the Arctic

Director, screenwriter. CurrentTimeDoc

The government promises free land in the Arctic. People come with hopes and shovels. What awaits them is something else entirely.

2021

Disappearing

Director, screenwriter. CurrentTimeDoc

A Khanty woman invites a film crew to see how her people live — reindeer, forest, a school where children first hear Russian. A world that is quietly disappearing.

2021

Non-Children's Walk

Director, screenwriter. CurrentTimeDoc

Teenagers go to political protests for the first time. Parents worry, police detain. At sixteen, you can't even post what you think — and that itself feels absurd.

2020

Good Deal «TIBOJ»

Director, screenwriter. CurrentTimeDoc

A shoe factory near Petersburg where people with disabilities make sneakers — one pair sold, one pair given away. Then the debts pile up, and the dream nearly dies.

2019

August in Arctic

Director, screenwriter. CurrentTimeDoc

A filmmaker joins a scientific expedition across the Arctic seas. Six weeks on a research vessel with scientists, melting ice, and bureaucracy — where the ocean reveals more than the paperwork ever will.

2019

I Love You So Much, Mommy

Scriptwriter, director. Lendoc Studio. 44 min

A mother who is also a fighting coach. She dances with sabers before her sons' bouts, fierce and tender at once. Love as a contact sport.

2017

Night Nursing

Scriptwriter, director. Lendoc Studio. 26 min

A neonatologist saves the tiniest lives every night. But her own dream of becoming a mother keeps slipping away. A film about the price of dedication.

Awards & Recognition

Film Awards

  • Best Documentary — Moscow Movie Festival «8 Women», 2018
  • Outstanding Documentary — Wallachia International Film Festival, 2019

TEFI Awards

  • 2016 — «Morning at 5»
  • 2008 — «Petersburg's Hour»

Festival Selections

  • ArtDocFest.online, Riga — 2023
  • Portobello Film Festival — 2019
  • Kinoshock — 2019
  • AegeanDocs International Documentary Film Festival — 2019
  • ArtDocFest, Russia — 2019
  • IFF Message to Man — 2019

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