Director Kantemir Balagov announced on Twitter that he has decided to end his film career.
“I’m done. Two films are more than enough,” the producer wrote on the night of April 6. Balagov later deleted his Twitter and Instagram accounts (the owner, Meta, was considered an extremist in Russia and was banned).
Balagov made his debut as a director in 2017. He directed the feature film “Intimacy”. The picture was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. The filmmaker received an award for him from the International Film Press Federation FIPRESCI in the Un Certain Regard program.
Balagov showed his second film “Dylda” at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019. The movie won the best director award. That same year, Russia nominated the film for an Oscar in the nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 2021, it became known that Balagov. will direct Pilot episodes for The Last of Us. The director later left the project due to creative differences with the series producers. January 2023 reportedHe said that Balagov’s scenes were included in the series. The first episode featured 40% of the director’s footage.