Born in 1982 in the USSR, Kirill moved to Germany, where he studied film production at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB), graduating in 2014 with A Proletarian Winter’s Tale (dir. Julian Radlmaier), which enjoyed great success at international festivals, including Rotterdam and Viennale. He has worked as production manager and line producer for various German and international production companies, including NFP, Augenschein Filmproduktion, Ma.Ja.De Fiction, Atoms & Void, Film United, Ulrike Ottinger Filmproduktion, and Weidemann Bros.