Burov & Burov/ Буров и Буров

Burov & Burov/ Буров и Буров
Russia, 2021, 45’
in Russian w/ Arm./Eng. subtitles

Director: Pavel Selin
Scriptwriters: Pavel Selin, Dmitry Razvorotnev, Svetlana Selina
Cinematographer: Artem Velichko
Producers: Svetlana Chernomyrdina, Pavel Selin
Editor: Narek Khachaturyan

Alexander and Vladimir Burov are residents of a small village called “Fedorovka-1” in the Orenburg steppe. Alexander is a realist painter, and Vladimir is an abstractionist. They live in one world, but everyone sees it in his own way. Relationships between brothers, on the one hand, are kin, but on the other hand, they are uneasy: now and then there is a flare-up of creative jealousy. Alexander is a member of the Union of Artists, and Vladimir is a hermit and informal person: he can’t stand any exhibitions. Their lives in general are very different. However, art historians, who discovered them, speak of both brothers as world-class artists.

Awards

Best Documentary, Crimean Open Documentary Film Festival “KrymDok”, 2020; Special Jury Prize, Open Documentary Film Festival “Russia”, Yekaterinburg, 2020; Special Jury Diploma, National TV Film Forum “Native Trails”, Moscow, 2021.

Pavel Selin

Born on September 28^th, 1974 in Zakamensk (Buryatiya region, Russia), Pavel Selin graduated from Voronezh State University as a journalist in 1996. At the moment, works as a television host and director of documentary films.

Filmography

Stepanych (2010), Academy (2014), The Long Echo of War in Vietnam (2015), Love Syndrome (2018), Yura the Musician (2019), Burov & Burov (2021).