Igor Voloshin was born on July 1, 1974 in Sevastopol, Ukraine, where he began his acting career in 1992 at the local youth theater and subsequently completed training at the city’s Volkov Theater Academy. He has written and directed several plays in which he has also acted. From 1998 to 2000, he studied screenwriting and directing at the VGIK, the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow, after which he made two short films for the Sverdlovsk Film Studio. NIRVANA is his first feature-length film.-www.berlinale.de-