Biography

Denis Klebleev (1981) is a filmmaker and cinematographer from Moscow. In 2012 he graduated from Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Film. His diploma film 31st Haul (2012) won the Best Feature Film prize at Artdocfest (Moscow) and was selected for several film festivals (including Hot Docs and Cinema du Reel). His second documentary Strange Particles (2015) premiered at Cinema Du Reel (Paris), where it received two prizes. It was later screened at various well-known international festivals (Hot Docs, Dok-Leizpig, Locarno, Viennale, etc.). In 2015 he was a member of the jury for the short film competition at the Locarno Film Festival. The world premiere of his new documentary King Lear took place at Hot Docs (Toronto) in April 2018.