Aleksey Lapin was born in 1988, in Tomsk (USSR). He spent his childhood between Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Italy. He received a Bachelor of Art from Bolzano Free University in 2010. After that, he started his film-studies in Michael Haneke’s directing-class at the Vienna Film Academy. He made several short films, which were shown at many international film festivals. 2021 his first feature documentary film "Krai" premiered in Viennale and in the international competition of DokLeipzig. In 2023 he founded together with Claudia Joldes JOL Filmproduktion an independent film production company based in Vienna.
Selected filmography as director:
A New Tractor Is Coming To Town, The Working Class Takes A Break | 5 min | 2013
Auf Wiedersehen Schönbrunn | 17 min | 2016
Rhythmus 59 | 25 min | 2016 | co-director: Markus Zizenbacher
Geschichte 2000 | 24 min | 2017 | co-director: Markus Zizenbacher
100 EUR | 25 min | 2018
Krai | 123 min | 2021
Coming Soon | 14 min | 2023
Ikonov | feature film | in post-production