Farmers

Year: 2021
Country: Russia
Director: Tatyana Tretyakova, Mikhail Churbanov, Elena Flyagina
Genre: documentary
Runtime: 60 min.
Age: 16+
A documentary project about aspiring and established farmers in Russia who care about ecology and natural production and want to benefit people and their country. Their journey began with an idea, a dream, and for each of them it grew into a big deal, joy, and painstaking work.

The film is based on inspiring stories of young people and adults. The main characters are two 15-year-old schoolgirls who traded gadgets for communication with nature, work on a farm and gaining new skills in the company of goats and delicious cheese... Other heroes of the film are an experienced lawyer and aspiring cheese maker Svetlana from the Sverdlovsk region; a large family of farmers from Tatarstan; two 24-year-old friends developing a sheep farm in Crimea; former top manager of the company, and now a young farmer Nikita from the Voronezh region and another family with 4 children in the Yaroslavl region, in which teenagers actively help their parents in developing the popular format of a “family restaurant on a farm” right in the middle of the forest.

Awards & Festivals:

The film won awards at international and Russian film festivals, was awarded the National Film Prize and the attention of 6 million viewers on the Internet