- year : 2022
- country : Russia
- timing : 9:48'
- genre : fiction film
- producer : Olesya Smolkova
- production : Free Cinema Film School
written and produced by Olesya Smolkova
DoP Alexander Grudsky
sound by Vladimir Surzhan, Sergey Dietrich, Alexey Kozhevnikov
editor Olesya Smolkova
production designer Olesya Smolkova
cast: Afshchino Garmrudi, Alyona Budovich, Abbos Abdussatorov
A janitor from Uzbekistan named Olim becomes an unwitting witness to a family breakup He comes to the defense of a pregnant woman and thus finds his own ‘paradise’.
- Open Festival of Student and Debut Films "Saint Anna" (2022, Russia, Moscow)
- Pune Short Film Festival (2023, India, Pune)
- Russian Ethnographic Film Festival "Crimean Frame" (2023, Russia, Simferopol)
- Goa Short Film Festival (2023, India, Goa)
- International Kolkata Short Film Festival (2024, India, Kolkata)
Director’s statement
I wanted to make a film about those people who come to big cities in search of work and try to survive there. Because all of us can find ourselves in that situation.
ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:
Olesya Smolkova was born on 25.005.1978 in Stupino, Moscow region, Russia. In 2001 graduated from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University. In 2022 graduated from the Course for directors in the Free Cinema Film School.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2022 - "Olim", short student film
2022 - "Tverskoy boulevard", short student film