Igor Smola

Biography

Igor Smola is an independent, self-taught filmmaker born in 1989 in the Murmansk region, USSR. Since 2020, he has lived and worked in Baku, Azerbaijan. His debut feature documentary, Trigger (2018), premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival. His films have been selected for Busan International Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Krakow Film Festival, and Stockholm International Film Festival. My Name Is Oil won the Best Documentary Award at the Tehran Interna…