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Renata Dzhalo

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Known For

Directing

Gender

Female

Place of Birth

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Also Known As

Рената ДжалоRenata Djalo

Renata Dzhalo

Directing

Biography

Renata Dzhalo was born in 1997 in Saint Petersburg to a Russian mother and a Bissau Guinean father. In 2021 she graduated from VGIK, where she studied in Alexei Uchitel’s studio of experimental cinema. Her debut feature-length work, the documentary film Lenechka, about composer Leonid Desyatnikov, received an award at the Message to Man IFF. She directed a play based on her own script, Vitya Needs to Leave, which was performed at the School of Modern Drama, House of Cinema and the 8/3 Stage. On This Land is her first experience in feature-length fiction filmmaking.

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Filmography