Aljona Surikova

Aljona Surikova is an independent filmmaker, a native of Estonia. She has worked in Europe and Eastern-European countries for the past fifteen years. Aljona’s work is always looking into the understanding of post-Soviet identity, relations between past and present, personality and state. She studied at Tallinn University and in Saint Petersburg State University, graduating with a degree in Film Industry and Television.

Not My Land (2013, 52 min), her first feature-length film project as a Director/ Producer, received the Best Young Filmmaker award from the Estonian Cultural Endowment in 2014. In 2019, she released Stories of Success, a 12-part documentary series about famous Russian-speaking people from Estonia. For this project, Aljona was named Person of the Year by Radio 4.

Estonian Film Institute