The Right to Life
20'
Russia 2020
16+
fiction, student, social drama
| Director | Olga Koleva |
| Scriptwriter | Olga Koleva |
| DOP | Sergey Baskoev |
| Producer | Anastasia Muntyan, Mila Solovyeva, Yulia Pereverzeva |
| Studio | Academy of Cinematographic and Theatre Arts of N. S. Mikhalkov |
| Cast | Tatiana Karaeva, Vladimir Kotov, Lyudmila Khalilulina, Seraphim Smolin, Vitaly Abdulov |
Festivals
| 2020 | Seize the Film |
| 2020 | Kinoshok |
| 2020 | Integracja Ty i Ja |
| 2020 | Festival Inclús |
| 2020 | The Golden Unicorn Awards & Russian Film Week |
| 2020 | Rodi Festival |
| 2020 | Stalker |
| 2020 | CineMAiubit International Student Film Festival |
| 2021 | 8 women |
| 2021 | EQAD Equality and Diversity Film Festival |
A pregnant women discovers that the child she is expecting is, according to the medical analyses, very likely to be with a genetic disorder. Struggling with her own fears and doubts, as well as with the prejudices of the society, Maria faces the hard choice – to give or not the right to life of her special child.
Olga Koleva
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2014 she graduated from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia. She has participated in several film festivals and workshops in Europe and has also worked as assistant director on American and French film productions and the European culture channel ARTE. Her diploma film Lake Boy is the recipient of the Zolotoy Vityaz (Golden Knight) award at the Zolotoy Vityaz International Film Festival in Russia that brought her to Moscow for further professional education in Nikita Mikhalkov’s Academy in 2018. Once there she started working in the field of social advertising and directed a commercial for the Naked Heart Foundation (a charity organization for children with special needs, founded by the model Natalia Vodianova). This project inspired Olga to write and direct The Right to Life.