Director Angelina Nikonova

Script Angelina Nikonova, with participation from Olga Dykhovichnaya and Karen Karagulyan

Camera Jonathan Miller

Design Tatiana Dolmatovskaya

Music Oleg Sadko

Cast: Karen Karagulyan, Olga Dykhovichnaya, Edward Baker-Duly, Ara Woland, Galina Perelomova, Mona Depena

Producers Angelina Nikonova, Alexei Sonk, Olga Dykhovichnaya

Production Interproekt with participation from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

This is a story about people who have lost a sense of belonging to a certain geographical point, to the place that we call home. They are united by a thirst for an illusory success, striving for which many spend years and decades, sacrificing their original values. The film’s protagonists are not the most unfortunate people on earth, but they don’t have an easy life; and they have chosen that life voluntarily, hoping to make their idea of well-being come true. For them, New York is a battlefield where they struggle for their dream every day.

ANGELINA NIKONOVA

Born in Rostov-on-Don. Moved to New York, where she enrolled in the School of Visual Arts, department of Film and Video. Her degree work, the short film “Isosceles”, received awards at the festivals “St. Anna” in Moscow and Cinevue in Florida. Director and producer of the documentary film “Point of Return” (2005). Author of seven full-length scripts, one of which (in co-authorship with Olga Dykhovichnaya) forms the basis of her debut film “Twilight Portrait” (2011), which won many festival awards. Producer of the International Festival of Independent Cinema “2morrow”. “Welkome Home” is her second film.