darina umanova managed to make a documentary about her classmate from the russian province and get withstival, the director's feature-length debut and they lived happily ever after, or why dinosaurs became extinct, a thoughtful story about the difficult fate of a graduate of the acting department: unsuccessful love, several divorces, difficult relationships with parents, a small child in the arms of loneliness. familiar to russian viewers not only from the plots of numerous tv series; stories similar to what happened to the main character often happen in everyday life, but it is not often that large documentaries are made about them. darina umanova's film brings a legal intonation to russian documentary filmmaking and immerses the viewer in the world of familiar experiences. 7 years of work on the film, the shots were arranged artistically, helping the director take a very personal intonation in conversation and thinking about what the little daughter’s question is. it’s easier to answer: the festival, why dad left or why dinosaurs became extinct. section curator sergei mirashnichenko s