Alena Lodkina is a Russian-born, Melbourne-based director, whose second feature Petrol has just premiered at Locarno and is now in the running for MIFF’s Bright Horizons prize.
Supported by the MIFF Premiere Fund, the bewitching second feature from Lodkina is a ‘visually commanding, masterfully zany distillation of twentysomething drift’: share houses, substances, and conversations about existence, ethics and literature, but also ‘unforeseen darkness and lack of direction.’
