VSTRECHA Film Studio was founded by Natalia Gugueva in 2003 in Moscow. The studio produces documentaries and feature films for theatrical release, festivals, and television.
The main partners of the Studio are the Ministry of Culture
of Russia, and Russian TV channels - Channel One, Channel Russia, and Channel Culture.
The Studio cooperates with TV channels in Kazakhstan, China, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, etc.
Among works of the Studio there are films about life of bright personalities: “Gagarin's Smile”, “The Testament. Alexander Zinoviev”., “Who Is This Kusturica?”, “Yury Arabov. Mechanics of Fat”, “Russian Wife of Pablo Picasso”. But these are not just biographical films. The authors of the films are primarily interested in a person in extreme situations, a person solving the main issues of existence: attitude to death, sacrifice, betrayal, treason, the relationship of man and woman, the founding family, raising children, and creative realization. Among t Studio works there are also film researches of socially significant acute problems: “Overdrive. Return point”, “The Mystery of June, 22”, “Heroin. Wind from South”; films from flashpoints: “Puzzle of SadStringer”; films about lives of Saint people, about the path to “God Witnesses to Love”.
Films of the Studio were awarded numerous prizes at international and national film festivals, and are multiple laureates and nominees of TEFI, Laurel Branch, Triumph, Nika, Golden Eagle, and White Elephant national awards.
- The Passion according to Solonitsyn, documentary, 44 min, 2006
- The Testament. Alexander Zinoviev, documentary, 26 min, 2006
- Puzzle of Sad Stringer, documentary, 35 min, 2007
- The Russian Muse, documentary, 52 min, 2007
- The Mystery of June 22nd, documentary, 52 min, 2007
- Yury Arabov. Mechanics of Fat, documentary, 52 min, 2007
- Russian Wife of Pablo Picasso, documentary, 52 min, 2007
- Who Is This Kusturica?, documentary, 92 min, 2007
- The Last Kiss. Marina Vladi-Vladimir Vysotsky, documentary, 52 min, 2007
- Gagarin's Smile, documentary, 52 min, 2009
- Irina Rodnina. Invincible, documentary, 52 min, 2010
- Gherman Titov. The First after Gagarin, documentary, 52 min, 2010
- Separated by the Sky, documentary, 52 min, 2010
- Life is Always Concrete, documentary, 69 min, 2011
- Overdrive. Return Point, documentary, 93 min, 201
- Witnesses to Love, documentary, 65 min, 2016
- UNseparation, documentary,68 min, 2021
- Fog, feature, 88 min, 2023