- year : 2020
- country : Russia
- timing : 31:39'
- genre : documentary
- producer : Elena Demidova
written by Elena Demidova
produced by Liza Antonova
DoP Elena Demidova
sound by Sorin Apostol
editor Elena Demidova
production company: Passenger Film Studio
Masha is sick with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). She can’t move and talk, only her fingers move a little and make it possible to control a computer mouse and then everything will be even worse. She lives in a poor apartment with her little daughter. Alice is a successful musician. She comes to Masha as a music therapist. They are from different worlds and the contact could not work out, but something happens between them, which makes them not so scared.
- Open Film Festival "Kinoshock" (2020, Russia, Anapa)
- International Film and TV Festival "Radonezh", Diploma "Special mention of the jury" (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- International festival of films about human rights "Stalker", Prize of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia "White Elephant" (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- National Film Award "Golden Eagle", Nominee in the category "Best non-fiction film" (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- International festival "Date with Russia" (2020, Russia, Vologda)
- Dhaka International Film Festival (2021, India, Bangladesh)
- Nika Russian Film Award, Nominee (2021, Russia, Moscow)
- BOSIFEST International Film Festival for and by People with Disabilities (2021, Serbia, Belgrade)
- We Care Film Festival (2021, India, New Delhi)
- Moscow International Film Festival "8 Women" (2022, Russia, Moscow)
Director’s statement
I have filmed the material for a charity fund to support patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. I have come to the female character together with a musician and music therapist Alisa Apreleva, and at some point I realized that this is more than charity: it's a movie, it's about life and death, it's about music, it's about compassion, and in some sense it's about miracle because for Masha, Alisa is a miracle, a person from another world who appeared in her Khrushchyovka in the last months of her life, and she understands it. I think, this is all the subject of the movie. And I've started making it like a movie.
ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:
Elena Demidova is a Russian film director, scriptwriter and producer. Graduated from Moscow State Technical University, Voronezh State University and filmschool “Internews” as a film director. Documentaries by Elena Demidova are winners of many international film festivals, in 2016 she made her debut in the feature film.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2020 - "Alice from Wonderland", documentary
2019 - "Alexander Kolchak. Unfinished story", documentary
2018 - "The mystery of a Buryat lama", documentary
2018 - "Paris 1986", documentary
2016 - "The last man", documentary
2016 - "Touch of wind", full-length film
2016 - "From parade to the Oscar", documentary
2014 - "Men’s choice", documentary
2012 - "Sasha, Lena and Iron Dragon", documentary
2011 - "Lesha", documentary
2010 - "Cranberry Island", documentary
2008 - "It's time to go home", documentary
2007 - "The multiplication table", documentary
2007 - "Mohicans", documentary
2006 - "Holly Week", documentary
2006 - "Live water", documentary
