Ayka

Ayka just gave birth.
She can't afford to raise a child.
She has no job, debts to be paid, not even a room of her own.
But there is no way to suppress her natural instincts.

Russian director Sergey Dvortsevoy was born in 1962 in Chimkent, Kazakhstan. He graduated in 1982 from the aviation college in Krivoi Rog, Ukraine, then furthered his studies at the Radiotechnical Faculty of the Electrotechnical Institute in Novosibirsk. He then attended film school in Moscow, graduating in 1993. He worked for 9 years for the airline company Aeroflot as a radio engineer. After several documentaries, Dvortsevoy made his first fiction feature in 2008: TULPAN. The much-acclaimed film made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Un Certain Regard Prize.

DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
2008 TULPAN
2004 IN THE DARK (V Temnote) – documentary
1999 HIGHWAY (Trassa) – documentary
1998 BREAD DAY (Hlebny Den) – documentary
1995 PARADISE (Schastie) – documentary