INTERNATIONAL SHORTS
It Lives Under the Snow
Director
Igor Smola
Producers
Alvin Lee
Emil Najafov
Gregory Bagaev
Igor Smola
Ilkin Mahammadli
Cinematographer
Alisa Tarelicheva
Editor
Igor Smola
Sound
Igor Smola
Contact
Lihua Liu
[email protected]
2025
Azerbaijan, Singapore
16 min 13 sec
Color
In a village where people have been disappearing for years, a group of locals join two men to search for Murad, who recently vanished. They explore a local myth about a mysterious creature living under the snow. Their journey will uncover a secret deeper than they could have imagined.
Directors' Biography
Igor Smola is a self-taught Russian filmmaker whose hybrid shorts have screened at Busan, Zinebi, True/False, Go Short and Sheffield Doc/Fest. His works include Trigger, Destruction, POV Memory and OIL I: My Name is Oil. It Lives Under the Snow premieres in Winterthur.
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