Main Programme  

 Zosya’s Rodkevich debut. It is a frank, intimate, tragicomical portray of the famous Russian politician, Putin’s biggest opponent Boris Nemtsov, who loves his role and flirting with the camera. It all began with scepticism: “I was twenty two years old, I worked for the news. I got an assignment – to film Boris Nemtsov, and I took it as a challenge: he is old, narcissist bourgeois, well, what can be interesting about him? He was fifty three, had a PhD in Physics, had been a Vice Premier and “Heir of president Yeltsin”. But he appeared to be cool, decent and honest. We became friends. And then he was killed.”According to V. Mansky, this is an important document and a key to understanding the madness in which we find ourselves. That madness, which Nemtsov himself warned about, when he said that evolution, not revolution is what Russia needs. 

Awards

Krakow Film Festival – Golden Horn for the Director of the Best Documentary Film, 2016

Zosya Rodkevich

Born in Moscow in 1990, Zosya graduated from Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Filmmaking. One of the directors of the award-winning documentary “Winter Go Away”. She also participated in the making of documentaries “The Term” (directors A. Pivovarov, P. Kostomarov, A. Rastorguev) and “Kiev/Moscow” (director E. Khoreva). “My Friend Boris Nemtsov” is Zosya’s first full-length film.

Selected filmography

Kiev/Moscow. Part 1/ Kijev/Moskva.Chast 1, 2015
Kiev/Moscow. Part 2 / Kijev/Moskva. Chast 2, 2015
The Term / Srok, 2014
Winter Go Away/Zima, uhodi!,2012
Windy Day, 2010
Temporary Children, 2007
Through You, 2007