Team Statement

Le Doc en Scène, created in 2024 by actress Maria Chuprinskaia, is a Paris-based festival dedicated to theatre, documentary film, and contemporary art. Organized by the VERBA Association, with Anne Duruflé as President and Vladislav Ketkovich as Producer, the festival brings together the voices of political refugees and artists in exile — Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and others — united by their commitment to freedom and justice. 
In 2025, the second edition of Le Doc en Scène will take place from 13 November to 19 December, featuring a rich and diverse programme of cultural events: a retrospective of filmmaker Alexander Rastorguev, Paris Pitch 2025, Artdocfest Echo Paris, five theatrical productions including The Hague by Sasha Denisova, Frau by Dmitry Zitzer and Arthur Solomonov (starring Olga Romanova), a poetry evening, and an exhibition of anti-war paintings. 
Le Doc en Scène stands firmly for democratic values, humanism, and artistic freedom. The festival’s team and participants oppose dictatorship and totalitarianism, denounce the ongoing repressions in Russia and Belarus, and unequivocally condemn Russian aggression against Ukraine. Above all, the festival expresses its solidarity with Ukrainians and with all those who resist violence and fight for peace, dignity, and truth through art.

  • President of the Association

     After studying languages (English, Russian, Polish) and political science in Paris, with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet space, Anne built a career split between Paris—working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ cultural, scientific and technical cooperation—and postings in Kyiv, Warsaw, Moscow, and Ljubljana. She has been President of the France-Poland Solidarity Association since 2016 and was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Poland (1993) and the French Legion of Honour (2013). 

  • Founder of Association and Art Director

    Active in the film industry since 2006, Maria has written and produced several documentaries. She trained at the Moscow School of Dramatic Art (Mikhail Ugarov’s class), and starred in films screened at major international festivals, including The Whaler Boy (Venice, 2020). After relocating to Paris in March 2022 and receiving political asylum, she co-founded the theatre festival Echo Lyubimovka Paris (2022), and organized ArtDocFest Echo Paris (2023, 2024) and Le Doc en scène (2024). 

  • Treasurer of Association

     Since 2005, Vlad has completed top European producer training (EuroDoc, Ex-Oriente, Documentary Campus Masterschool, EAVE) and produced over 30 international co-productions. His films have screened at festivals such as IDFA, CPH:DOX, HotDocs, and DOK Leipzig, and aired on ARTE, BBC, ZDF, and others. In Russia, he was one of few independent producers working on protest-related films. He left shortly after the war in Ukraine began, settled in France with his family in March 2022 (granted political asylum), and now works in Paris, co-organizing ArtDocFest Echo Paris.