For the first time in the history of the Cannes Festival, three Russian movies are vying for the Golden Camera award for the best first feature film – Sergey Dvortsevoy’s ‘Tulip’, Bakura Bakuradze’s ‘Shultes’ and Valeria Guy Germanika’s ‘Everyb

Dvortsevoy’s movie is about Kazakh herders, while the two others are social dramas set in modern Russia and devoted to tragedies of a Moscow pickpocket, Shultes, and three schoolgirls.

The cutting-edge director Valeria Guy Germanika says her film deals with her own memories and experiences as a teenager. ‘Everybody Dies But Me’ is about growing older and getting over it.

The movie is shot in detached documentary style. During the shooting, the young actresses did all their stunts themselves, including scenes which feature violence.

“Everything in my film is like real life. If I feel that something is not authentic, I get very upset and dissatisfied,” Germanika said.