Felix Kalmenson
Felix Kalmenson (b. Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1987) is a non-binary artist, filmmaker, and producer. Their debut solo-feature 'Gamodi' was awarded 'Honorable Mention for Best Canadian Film' at Vancouver International Film Festival in 2023. Their films have screened in numerous international film festivals including at São Paulo International Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montreal, Tampere Film Festival, Arkipel, Doclisboa, Sharjah Film Platform, Kasseler Dokfest, Berwick Film & Media Arts Fest and Media City Film Festival, winning awards including the Prix George at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, 2020. For the past 13 years they have been creating films between Georgia, Armenia, Turkey and Uzbekistan, at times collaborating with Iranian artist and filmmaker Rouzbeh Akhbari under the collective name 'Pejvak'. They are also an artist having exhibited internationally including; Villa Arson (Nice), MAC VAL (Vitry-sur-Seine), M HKA (Antwerp), Van Abbemueum (Eindhoven), Z33 (Hasselt), Kim? CAC (Riga), Blaffer Art Museum (Houston), ACAC (Aomori, Japan), and Museum Abteiberg (Germany). As Pejvak they were long-listed for the prestigious Sobey Art Award in 2023.
Filmography
I Would Take All Your Misfortunes/ Felix Kalmenson / 2025 / 77 min/ Fiction
Gamodi / Felix Kalmenson / 2023 / 97 min / Fiction
Shokouk/Co-directed with Rouzbeh Akhbari / 2023 / 17 min / Fiction
This World Does Not Fit into My Eyes/ Co-directed with Rouzbeh Akhbari / 2023 / 17min / Fiction
Threshold / Co-directed with Rouzbeh Akhbari / 2020 / 64 min / Fiction
A Passage / Co-directed with Rouzbeh Akhbari / 2019 /17 min / Experimental Documentary
Weak Enough to Hear / Co-directed with Rouzbeh Akhbari / 2019 / 39 min / Experimental Documentary
A Mountain That Opens Like a Door / Felix Kalmenson / 2017 / 10 min / Experimental
43 / Felix Kalmenson / 2016 / 3min / Experimental
A House of Skin / Felix Kalmenson / 2016 / 16min / Experimental
Website: www.felixkalmenson.com
Contact: felixkalmenson@gmail.com
Awards
Runner up for Best International Short, London Short Film Festival, 2025
Best Experimental Film, Tirana International Film Festival, 2024
Honorable Mention for Best Canadian Film, Vancouver International Film Festival, 2023
Prix George, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, 2020
Trinity Square Video Award, Images Festival, 2017
Festival Selection
São Paulo International Film Festival (2023), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (2023), Vancouver International Film Festival (2023), Tampere Film Festival (2024), Tirana International Film Festival (2024), London Short Film Festival (2025), Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival (2024), Uppsala Short Film Festival (2024), International Short Film Week Regensburg (2024), Media City Film Festival (2023), Arkipel-Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival (2023), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (2020), Kasseler Dokfest (2020), Moscow International Experimental Film Festival (2020), Kyiv International Short Film Festival (2020), Sharjah Film Platform (2019), Doclisboa International Film Festival (2019), Aesthetica International Film Festival (2019), Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival (2019).