Aleksandr Belov
Filmmaker

Aleksandr
Belov

Director · Stockholm

Russian-Swedish filmmaker working at the intersection of personal memory, experimental form, and documentary impulse. His work explores displacement, guilt, and the impossible distance between people who love each other.

Mailaleksandr.bel.andre@gmail.com
WhatsApp+7 903 299 93 92
Instagram@aleksandr_belov_andre
Selected San Sebastián IFF BISFF Jury Special Mention Festival of Future Storytellers Mayak Film Festival
Aleksandr Belov
Filmmaker

Aleksandr Belov

Director · Stockholm

Russian-Swedish filmmaker working at the intersection of personal memory, experimental form, and documentary impulse.

Mailaleksandr.bel.andre@gmail.com
WhatsApp+7 903 299 93 92
Instagram@aleksandr_belov_andre
Selected San Sebastián IFF BISFF Jury Special Mention Festival of Future Storytellers Mayak Film Festival
2024 · Short Film · 29 min

That Summer I Got Accepted to University

Heat. Country house. Two boys are shooting bottles with air guns. Anton shifts the scope from the bottle to the cat running through the bushes and pulls the trigger. Zhenya gets scared and decides to punish his friend with silence. The speechlessness of their last summer together hangs over their friendship.

16mmNarrativeComing of age
SSIFF BISFF FOFS Mayak
San Sebastián IFF — Nest
BISFF — Jury Special Mention
Festival of Future Storytellers
Mayak Film Festival
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In Post-Production
2026 · Essay Film · 10 min

Józef

A boy. A mother. A second of shame that has lasted twenty years.

Józef is a personal essay film that moves between archival footage, a handcrafted black-and-white expressionist sequence shot on 16mm, and video game animation — three registers of memory, guilt, and imagined love.

History, memory, and a video game. A confession that took twenty years to make.

Essay Film16mm + B&WAnimation
Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
Seeking: festival submissions · co-production · distribution
Józef
Józef
Józef
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Publication · 2025

SKH-student i exil testar nya gränser

An article about Aleksandr Belov and his filmmaking practice, published in Triart — a Swedish platform for art and culture.

⚠ Article in Swedish

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Film director and MA graduate of Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), working within practice-based artistic research. Background spans directing, editing, on-set coordination, and festival industry work — with experience as 2nd AD, editor, and production intern at international film institutions including PÖFF and CPH:DOX.

Work Experience
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF)
Curatorial / Production Intern  ·  June – November 2025
On- site production support for Frame Within a Frame Workshop (Tallinn + Helsinki). Coordinated filmmakers, mentors, and partners. Managed scheduling, DCPs, onboarding, and technical workflows in a professional international context.
DOX:ACADEMY+, CPH:DOX
Advanced Professional Training  ·  March 2025
Documentary development, editing ethics, and political representation in film. Q&As and masterclasses with international filmmakers.
Education
Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
MA in Artistic Research / Art of Impact  ·  2024–2026
Moscow School of New Cinema (MSNC)
Script Development  ·  2022–2024
VGIK — Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
Postgraduate Programme in Film Directing  ·  2016–2018
Languages
Russian — native  ·  English — fluent  ·  Polish — fluent  ·  Swedish — intermediate