Yuri Mikhailin

I Would Like to Speak Armenian Well

In the spring of 2022 Vigen came back to the little town in Armenia that he left when was 11 y.o. He has to remember his mother’s tongue over again, settle in and find a job. There are old things in the basement of his house that were brought from the village where his ancestors lived a long time ago. These things keep the history of Vigen’s family, childhood and support him with starting a new life.

Tbilisi. Mental Maps

Personal maps of Tbilisi, created by its recent inhabitants – emigrants from Russia. The urban landscape transforms from being unfamiliar and occasionally intimidating to becoming intimate and recognizable. A shared environment for living, working, and creating is slowly taking shape.

The Play of Silence

Composer John Cage walks through the woods and talks about the music of silence

The Epplee Brothers

The story of two brothers who grew up in a wealthy Moscow family and survived devastating revolutionary changes, but were arrested and sent to a camp in 1941 for their German roots. Very little information about their lives has survived, but the little that remains is incredibly beautiful and alive. The grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the heroes became film artists in order to try to understand what happened to their family in the last century and how to deal with this memory today.

The Epplee Brothers

The story of two brothers who grew up in a wealthy Moscow family and survived devastating revolutionary changes, but were arrested and sent to a camp in 1941 for their German roots. Very little information about their lives has survived, but the little that remains is incredibly beautiful and alive. The grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the heroes became film artists in order to try to understand what happened to their family in the last century and how to deal with this memory today.

The Tale for Natasha

In December 2016 was arrested russian historian, specialist in the history of state repressions - Yuri Dmitriev. Most people don't believe in the charges against him, the case falling apart in court. But case is continue and the historian is still under arrest. Life of Yuri Dmitriev and his family was destroyed by the state. This documentary and animation film - is story about friendship one of author of film and girl, who was foster daughter of Yuri Dmitriev and who stood in the center of the process.