Ivan Sourvillo
Filmmaker · JournalistForbes 30 Under 30

Journeys that reveal what stays human

From the Arctic Circle in Kirovsk to Palau, from Dhaka and Dili to Venice and Corvo, the smallest island of the Azores: the fragile space between people, silence and movement. Stories that unfold quietly, between departures and arrivals.

200+Interviews
400+Flights
59Countries
The atlas
The atlas

Films from the road, now in the edit

Fifteen places, one route. Scroll, and the globe flies it.

    How I work

    01

    Long interviews

    Ten years of conversations: for TASS, the Agency for Social Information, Alpina Publisher and on my own. Politicians, scientists, therapists, teenagers. The first fifteen minutes people say what they have said before. The interesting part starts later.

    02

    100 questions to the world

    A long-running series of close conversations about death, failure, home and love: everything that makes us human.

    03

    Flights as chapters

    The poetry of airports and motion. Stories born in transit, where strangers meet for a heartbeat.

    Recognition

    • Forbes Russia 30 Under 30New Media
    • Two Gold Telly Awards2021, documentary interviews
    • Conversations with Ivan SourvilloA series for TASS
    • Lectures at eight universitiesIncluding Moscow State, HSE, MGIMO and St Petersburg State

    Between trips

    I read ciphers left unread in old archives, and set old devices free from dead clouds.

    Write to me
    sourvillo@yandex.ru

    Films, interviews, projects for companies, or a place I should fly to. Most of my work is in Russian, at sourvillo.ru.