THE RISE
ALESJA SUZDALTSEVA
In a shipwreck, a little girl Lilit, finds herself on a cold planet, where she must quickly repair her ship. The planet is cold and seemingly empty. Lilit tries to fix the energy core. The temperature is dropping rapidly. She needs to find a way to get the ship back in order or her death is inevitable. Suddenly she spots something weird. An android robot is lurking near the spaceship. To her surprise it has the same core she needs to fix her spaceship.
And now she must decide if she can kill this robot in order to survive.
Director Biography:
Film director Alesja Suzdaltseva is an Estonia-based storyteller who already made 5 short films, and 3 documentaries and whose movies were screened in more than 30 international film festivals and on national television. Suzdaltseva is already an award-winning director in Europe. The 2018 short film “Habit” was selected and awarded by many film festivals and won silver at UNICA World Amateur Film Festival. Her next film “Sewing machines”, a Soviet romantic comedy, won the Best of BFM 2021 for Best Production Design.
Alesja works as a director, cinematographer, and assistant director for local independent film productions and Estonian television. Currently, her main workplace is Gorodenkoff Production where she directs high-quality footage for companies like Samsung, Dell, Apple, National Geographic and etc.
ALESJA SUZDALTSEVA