Ellen Rodnianski

Growing Pains (2021)

We follow 15-year-old and 9-months-pregnant Zhenya as she tries to navigate her difficult situation and is faced with ever increasing rejection from her community, friends and family. ...

Zoe's Dumpling Crisis (2021)

16-year-old Zoe enlists the help of her two grandmothers, one Russian and the other Turkish, for a school cooking project. As the grandmother's rivalry escalates, Zoe wishes she hadn't bothered to ask them in the first place. The need for culturally identi ...

Cinephile (2021)

Beanpole (2019)

1945, Leningrad. World War II has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women, Iya and Masha, search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ru ...

ASIA A (2018)

A recent spinal cord injury patient struggles to reconcile his sense of self-worth with his new reality as a paraplegic. ...

Lucid (2017)

A woman loses her husband and child to an accident that she is at fault for, and therefore turns to lucid dreaming in order to keep them alive in her mind and deal with her grief/guilt. ...

Sparks (2017)

After her plus 1 stands her up at a rehearsal dinner, a neurotic young wedding guest flees the venue in embarrassment, and has a serendipitous run-in with an ex. This impromptu reunion leads to a spontaneous, romantic, adventure through the streets of Los ...