Vasilisa Lopatina is a film director and screenwriter born in Khabarovsk, Russia. At the age of 18, she moved to Moscow and enrolled at the GITR Film and Television Institute. Her work explores themes of memory, religion, fear, and the inner state of the human mind through visual imagery and symbolism. Her three-minute short film Bardo (2024), inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the theme of reincarnation, received the award for Best Cinematography at the “We.” Film Festival and was recognized at several other festivals. Her five-minute student film Insight (Ozarenie, 2025), created during her second year of study, explores the lives of blind people and the appreciation of the beauty of the surrounding world through simple everyday details. The short film Silence (2025), originally conceived as an exercise inspired by a haiku poem, gradually evolved into an independent reflection on faith and religion. The film serves as an homage to Martin Scorsese’s film of the same name. She is currently completing post-production on the 10-minute short film Backrooms (2026), her most ambitious project to date.
