- year : 2020
- country : Russia
- timing : 13:24'
- genre : fiction film
- producer : Alena Rubinshtein
written and produced by Alena Rubinshtein
DoP Dmitry Golovkin
music by Nastasia Simbirtseva, Sophia Prince
sound by Igor Maslutin, Eugene Arzamastsev, Anatoly Grinberg
editor Alena Rubinshtein
production designer Margarita Sagura, Alena Rubinshtein
cast: Sophia Prince, Yana Revutskaya, Egor Morozov, Gregory Barkan, Julie Kivi, Maria Butorina, Marina Onishchik
A modern businesswoman, is very lonely. She meets with her friends, where problems are traditionally discussed and they complain to each other about life. This is their communication style and way of life.
The heroine has a nightmare where she meets a strange creature that clearly translates the values that the heroine lives. The heroine resists and escapes. After this nightmare, the heroine wakes up and finds that someone is stroking her hair - her usual IKEA blanket "Hensber", came to life.
- Russian Action "Day of Short Films" (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- All-Russian Film Festival "Russian Elementary Cinema" [REC] (2020, Russia, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Blagoveshchensk, St. Petersburg)
- Grenzland-Filmtage Selb International Film Festival (2021, Germany, Selb)
- Deep Fried Film Festival (2021, UK, Cotebridge)
- Russian National Auteur Short Film Festival “Artkino” (2021, Russia, Moscow)
Director’s statement
ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:
Alena Rubinshtein was born on 23.11.1984 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In 2013 graduated from The Gerasimov Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK).
FILMOGRAPHY:
2020 - "Hensber", short film
2020 - "Flashmob", full-length film
2018 - "It's not forever", full-length film
2017 - "Cleaning", short film
2016 - "Etude for piano. Perform in two hands", short film
2016 - "For U", short film
2015 - "Closer than it seems"
2013 - "Aral-Tour International", short film
2013 - "Vera", short film