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Igor Smola

AZ, EN, FA, BS cinema · 7 credits

Igor Smola is an independent, self-taught filmmaker born in 1989 in the Murmansk region, USSR. Since 2020, he has lived and worked in Baku, Azerbaijan. His debut feature documentary, Trigger (2018), premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival. His films have been selected for Busan International Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Krakow Film Festival, and Stockholm International Film Festival. My Name Is Oil won the Best Documentary Award at the Tehran International Short Film Festival. His short film It Lives Under the Snow premiered at Winterthur and competed at Tampere Film Festival and in the Lab Competition at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. It was shortlisted for the European Film Awards and screened at Telluride Film Festival.

Known for

Filmography

Dead Hasan poster

Dead Hasan

AZNot rated

Original Music Composer

My Name Is Oil poster

My Name Is Oil

AZ · 2025Not rated

Director, Writer, Producer, Editor

It Lives Under the Snow poster

It Lives Under the Snow

AZ · 2025Not rated

Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Music, Sound

POV Memory poster

POV Memory

EN · 2023Not rated

Writer, Director

Destruction poster

Destruction

AZ · 2022Not rated

Director, Producer

Раздвоенная жизнь

2019

Split Life

FA · 2019Not rated

Director, Screenplay

Trigger poster

Trigger

BS · 20187.0

Screenplay, Director