производит игровые полнометражные художественные фильмы
О нас
Forest film
Forest Film is a young film production company founded in St. Petersburg, Russia, in April 2020. The company produces fiction feature films and aims to work with devoted directors in long term relationship.
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Projects
ASSAULT (2022) by Adilkhan Yerzhanov (Russian – Kazakh coproduction, Big Screen IFFR 2022)
FRAU (2024) by Lyubov Mulmenko.
HI, MOM (2023) by Ilya Malakhov
INTERMISSION (2023) by Anna Kuznetsova
(Russian – Finnish coproduction with Eurimages support)
GOLIAF (2022) by Adilkhan Yerzhanov (Russian – Kazakh coproduction)
READY PROJECTS
GOLIATH
01.
(2022)
The Kazakh village Karatas has long been subjugated by a criminal boss called Poshaev. He provides housing and jobs for the locals but will ruthlessly execute anyone who dares to oppose him. This is the lesson the pauper Arzu is about to learn first-hand – his wife Karina has informed the police about the crimes that are taking place there. Arzu is a cripple; now he has to raise his little daughter alone. He is so helpless and grief-stricken that he doesn’t even seem to be contemplating revenge. Poshaev takes him under his wing and offers him the position of a guard at a building site. Soon Arzu has a chance to prove his loyalty, and he becomes Poshaev’s right hand. But where do Arzu’s real loyalties lie – with his boss or with the idea of justice?
CAST:
  • Berik Aytzhanov
  • Daniar Alshinov
  • Dmitry Chebotarev
  • Aleksandra Revenko
CREW:
  • Directed and written by Adilkhan Yerzhanov
  • Cinematography by Aydar Sharipov
  • Production designer Yermek Utegenov
  • Music producer Galymzhan Moldanazar
  • Sound designer Ilya Gariyev
Produced by:
  • Serik Abishev
  • Natalia Drozd
  • Olga Khlasheva
  • Georgiy Shabanov
  • Erken Gubashev
  • Elmira Tursun
  • Teoman Khos
  • Александр Кочнев
  • Нурасыл Джарбасов
  • Гидрат Сарсенов
production:
START, Changepoint, All Media Company, Short Brothers, QAZAQFILM, Форест-Фильм, Cinerental
ASSAULT
02.
(2022)
International premier – Big Screen at IFFR 2022
Karatas school is seized by a group of unidentified people looking like terrorists. They take children hostage but do not make any demands. Local police cannot request reinforcements from the city due to communication problems caused by a snowstorm. Meanwhile, “terrorists” kill the first hostage. A local teacher TAZSHI cannot wait for help and assembles an assault team made up of parents of hostage children. In a night they have to decide about the attack and take responsibility for it. A district police officer, an ex-Afghan, an alcoholic, a PE teacher, a school principal, a local moron and ex-wife will help Tazshi to make a plan of school attack to save the children.
CAST:
  • Azamat Nigmanov
  • Aleksandra Revenko
  • Berik Aytzhanov
CREW:
  • Directed by Adilkhan Yerzhanov
  • Cinematography by Aydar Sharipov
  • Production designer Yermek Utegenov
  • Music producer Galymzhan Moldanazar
  • Sound designer Ilya Gariyev
  • Film editing by Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Produced by:
  • Alexander Plotnikov
  • Boris Khlebnikov
  • Natalia Drozd
  • Anna Tikhonova
  • Nurlan Batyrov
  • Yerden Telemissov
  • Daniar Alshinov
  • Anastasiia Kulikova
  • Akan Sataev
  • Olga Khlasheva
  • Serik Abishev
production:
СТУДИЯ ЛУКФИЛЬМ, SHORT BROTHERS, ФОРЕСТ ФИЛЬМ,
АО КАЗАХФИЛЬМ, CINERENTAL, NOMAD STUNTS
PROJECTS IN PRODUCTION
INTERMISSION
03.
(2023)
Production stage: Post production
A young teacher named Tanya brings 12 teenagers to a Sochi theatre festival. They are being supervised by Maria Genrikhovna, a very experienced vice-principal. The adults are not too fond of each other: the older colleague thinks that Tanya is too irresponsible and egocentric, while the younger one believes that Maria is a true conformist. However at the festival they find themselves united my much more fundamental values: a distaste of marching to someone else’s drums as well as an ability to feel joy even in misfortune. Tanya, who is at the same

wavelength with the teens and seems unwilling to leave their immature world, finally meets a worthy adult in whom she finds a friend, a mother figure, a lover, and a role model.
Meanwhile, the 12 teenagers are going through their own dramas: first love, nonreciprocity, betrayal, defeat and friendship.
CAST:
  • Daria Saveleva
  • Polina Kutepova
  • Irina Nosova
  • Magoga Machulskaya
CREW:
  • Directed by Anna Kuznetsova
  • Written by Anna Kuznetsova and Ekaterina Zadohina
  • Cinematography by Jani-Petteri Passi
  • Production designer Victoria Fetisova
Produced by:
  • Natalia Drozd
  • Marfa Ivanova
  • Egor Leontev
  • Andrey Permyakov
  • Jussi Rantamäki
production:
a Forest Film Production in coproduction with Aamu (Finland) with the support of the Russian Ministry of Culture, Kinoprime film fund and Eurimages support
Coproduced by:
HI, MOM
04.
(2023)
Production stage: Post production
Kira is 38. She works at the Pulkovo Airport call centre and lives with her younger sister Vera and her daughters. A couple years ago, their mother kicked the sisters out of the house and later disappeared. It’s time for Kira to accept that her mother is dead and move on: get the death certificate, claim her inheritance and start living separately from her sister and nieces. A new life awaits her. But Kira does not want to change anything and dreams only of her mother coming back.
CAST:
  • Daria Saveleva
  • Aglaya Tarasova
  • Anna Osipova
  • Aleksandra Evdokiya Bakuradze
CREW:
  • Directed and written by Ilya Malakhova
  • Cinematography by Denis Klebleev and Mariia Falileeva
  • Production designer Yulia Urlih
  • Costume designer Olesya Vavilova
Produced:
  • Natalia Drozd
  • Leri Bakuradze
  • Grigory Chaban
  • Ilya Hetagurov
  • Igor Grabuzov
  • Georgiy Shabanov
Production:
A Forest Film production in a coproduction with All Media for START with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Co-producer:
FRAU
05.
(2023)
Production stage: Post production
Vanya works at the “Hunter and Fisher” store. Kristina dances at the Opera and Ballet Theatre. Kristina thinks that Vanya is a real man. Vanya thinks that Kristina is a real woman. They try to be a family, but at time goes by, they see that their family is not real. It’s just a project built on the fear to be alone instead of love. Living with another human just to live with another human makes no sense.
  • Script and directed by Lyubov Mulmenko
Production:
a Forest Film Production with the support of the Russian Ministry of Culture and Kinoprime film fund
Produced over
14 feature films, most of them -
in European co-production.
Founder and co-owner of Forest-Film
Natalia Drozd
Among the films of Natalia Drozd
by Lena Lanskih
(Best Debut San Sebastian 2021)
UNWANTED (2021)
CORE OF THE WORLD (2018)
by Natalia Meschaninova
(premiered at Toronto and San Sebastian, more then 20 international festivals, including San Francisco, Warsaw, Cairo, Munich, Rotterdam, Chicago and many others)
ARRHYTHMIA (2017)
by Boris Khlebnikov
(more then 330 000 admissions in Russia, Best Actor at Karlovy Vary, more then 30 international festivals and many prizes, including Grand Prix at Haifa, theatrically distributed on major territories, including France and Germany)
PETERSBURG. A SELFIE (2016)
(omnibus by 7 Russian female directors)
I WON’T COME BACK (2014)
by Ilmar Raag
(premiered at Tribeca) and others.
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by Juho Kuosmanen
(Grand Prix Cannes 2021)
COMPARTMENT №6 (2021)
by Anna Parmas
(more then 420 000 admissions in Russia, Best Debut at Kinotavr FF)
ANOTHER WOMAN (2019)
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NEWS

Фильм Адильхана Ержанова "Шторм", созданный при участии российских продюсеров Александра Плотникова, Бориса Хлебникова и Натальи Дрозд, получил Большой приз жюри за лучший международный фильм на Азиатско-Тихоокеанском кинофестивале в Лос-Анджелесе.

Картина казахского режиссера Адильхана Ержанова «ШТУРМ», созданная при участии LOOKFILM и российских продюсеров Александра Плотникова, Бориса Хлебникова и Натальи Дрозд, получила два приза — второго международного кинофестиваля триллеров и криминального кино в Реймсе - Reims Polar (Festival international du Film Policier) — ГРАН ПРИ и приз кинокритиков.

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