Alexander Abaturov

Alexander Abaturov was born in 1984 in Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia.

In 2010, he moved to France and joined the Master’s program in Creative Documentary Filmmaking at the Lussas Documentary School. In 2013, he directed his first documentary film, Les Âmes Dormantes (The Sleeping Souls). In 2018, his first feature-length documentary, Le Fils (The Son), had its world premiere at the Berlinale. Paradis (Paradise) is his second feature-length documentary, released in 2023, and has won several awards, including Best Cinematography at IDFA and the AFC Award. Brume (Mist) is a fiction project currently in development, inspired by the documentary Paradis

Brume (Mist)

Sélection Annuelle 2024

Deanne, a former anemologist specializing in wind studies, has recently turned her hand to fighting forest fires. She is sent by the government on her first mission: to evacuate an isolated village in northern Quebec, threatened by a devastating fire. But the inhabitants refuse to leave. Deanne’s discovery of the place, its inhabitants, and her confrontation with the “Dragon”, as they call the fire, turn her upside down. When the fire cuts off the only access road and lays siege to the village, she disobeys orders and chooses to stay behind to organize a collective resistance.