Boris Guts (1980) is a Russian director and social activist who addresses painful issues in his experimental films. In his early years, he worked as a television journalist, and at the age of 30, he graduated from the Higher Courses for Screenwriters and Directors at the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography. Since then, he has directed five feature films, which have participated in and won awards at numerous domestic and international film festivals. When the war with Ukraine broke out, Boris Guts left Russia. Guts‘s feature film debut was the 2016 psychological drama “Watermelon Rinds”. The director’s social conscience is most vividly revealed in his film “Minsk” (PÖFF 2022), which exposes the terror regime in Belarus. The film won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Film Festival Cottbus.

Arbuznye korki (Watermelon Rinds, 2016), Fagot (2018), Smert nam k litsu (We Look Good in Death, 2019), Minsk (PÖFF 2022), Deaf Lovers (2024)