DORTMUND SHADOWS OVER MORDOVIA

IVAN VETOSHKIN was born and grew up in Moscow. He is of Moksha and Komi descent. As a boy he played football, later served in the army. In 2024 he graduated from the Moscow School of New Cinema, where he studied in the class of the director of photography Alexei Rodionov. His first short film "Uncle" participated in the short film competition of last year's MIFF and won the Lendoc Film Festival in St. Petersburg. He plans to make his feature debut in Mordovia and contribute to the development of Finno-Ugric cinema.