Hleb Papou
Hleb Papou was born in Minsk, Belarus, in 1991 and has been living in Italy since 2003. In 2013, his first short film The Red Forest was part of the Short Film Corner in Cannes and was awarded at the Festival Nazionale Roma FilmCorto. He graduated at the DAMS in Rome and two years later he ended his studies in Direction at the National Film School of Rome. His graduation short film The Legionnaire was presented at the 32nd International Critic’s Week of the Venice Film Festival 2017 and was selected in the Future Frames 2018 at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. In 2017 he won the Mutti prize, a funding for an audiovisual work promoted by the Cineteca of Bologna, with the script of the short film The Interpreter. He’s currently working on the feature film The Legionnaire, based on his graduation project.

Filmography (as director):
2013 – La foresta rossa
2014 – Giochi di guerra
2014 – Giovedì, non commettere atti impuri
2015 – Copacabana
2016 – Steroidi
2017 – The Legionnaire
2018 – The Interpreter