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.
Her debut Strange Colours screened at MIFF in 2018, after Lodkina graduated from the Accelerator Lab program. Now, she returns to Melbourne for Petrol, an enigmatic drama that follows a film student who gets in over her head.
