Laura Sistero was born in Barcelona in 1986. In 2008, she obtained a degree of Audiovisual Production at EMAV. In 2012, she obtained a bachelor’s degree in film at the ESCAC school in Barcelona, specializing in documentary direction. She currently combines her work as a photographer, advertising and television director, with more personal fiction and documentary film projects. Tolyatti Adrift is her first feature-length documentary.
A portrait of the disenchanted youth of Tolyatti, a stricken city that was once a symbol of Soviet progress and the automobile. Filmmaker Laura Sistero encounters a youth adrift, expressing its dreams of escapism through crazy races aboard old, cobbled-together Lada cars, in a film propelled by spectacular slides to the rhythm of an electro-rock soundtrack.
A portrait of the disenchanted youth of Tolyatti, a stricken city that was once a symbol of Soviet progress and the automobile. Filmmaker Laura Sistero encounters a youth adrift, expressing its dreams of escapism through crazy races aboard old, cobbled-together Lada cars, in a film propelled by spectacular slides to the rhythm of an electro-rock soundtrack.