38th edition
17-25 january 2026
Image Tamara
United Kingdom
2015 Fiction 16 min
Siberian bus driver Tamara sets about introducing her teenage son Max to the colleague she has been dating for a while. But when all three meet in a jolly karaoke bar, the rivalry between the two men she loves releases her from clutching at old hopes.
With : Inessa Torbitc, Egor Rudi, Dmitriy Bizov
Screenplay : Sofia Safonova
Image : Jurgis Kmins
Sound : Alexandr Kalashnikov, Maiken Hansen
Editing : Ricardo Saraiva
Production : London Film School
Born in Siberia in 1987, Sofia Safonova studied International Journalism and Spanish Culture in Moscow. She worked in writing and editing in Moscow and in cultural sponsorship in Barcelona within the Santander scholarship programme.

In 2015 she graduated from the London Film School with her short film Tamara, shot in her home city.