FILMS
Inside my room
hybrid film (8 mins, 2026) - in post-production
Two digital traces, both named Agata, drift through virtual cells. Desire generates a bifurcated action.Directing/ editing/ AI: Nastya Rubel
Casting: Agata Sadkewich
In June, 2025
a diary video essay (4 mins, 2025)
White nights in Saint Petersburg,
a return to the city she grew up in,
life moving between the islands.
Created as part of the laboratory curated by Masha Godovannaya: Diary Film, Autoethnography, and Poetic Film Writing, Smolny Beyond Borders, Bard Global Degree, 2025.
SCREENING
Slice of Independent Cinema — Saint Petersburg, 2025
Microfilm lab — Barcelona, 2026
Directing/ camera:
Nastya Rubel
TRIO
feature short film (20 mins, 2025)
TRAILER (2025)
Vera remembers a day from the past. It is summer, early 2000s, she is 16 and goes to the dacha.
Not finding her aunt at home, Vera asks to visit to a close friend of hers. Agatha has never told her that she lives alone with her father.
Their world becomes the object of Vera's exploration and desire.
The film won the International Short Film Competition at the LUFF 2025 (Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival Festival), Switzerland.
Directing/ editing:
Nastya Rubel
Casting: Vera Baratova, Agata Sadkevich, Vsevolod Lisovskiy
DOP: Emil Khafizov
Second camera: Nastya Rubel
Sound: Leonid Shadevskiy
Art direction: Vera Baratova
Titles by: Anja Romanova
Meeting with the unknown
video essay (2 mins, 2019)
Directing/ editing/ camera:
Nastya Rubel
Casting: Polina Naisulich, Anna Leontieva