- year : 2021
- country : Russia
- timing : 90:58'
- genre : fiction film
- producer : Maria Batova
written and produced by Maria Batova
DoP Vladislav Politik
music by Larisa Shibert
sound by Anna Filatova
editors Maria Batova, Ekaterina Lunina
production designer Angelika Kremenetskaya
cast: Anastasia Samylova, Alexander Zamuraev
Eighteen-year-old girl Alyona decides to get acquainted with her biological father. Vasily, a veteran of the First Chechen War, lives alone and works as a railway switchman. The arrival of his daughter completely changes the life of the character.
- Shanghai International Film Festival (2021, China, Shanghai)
- Moscow International Film Festival "Let's Live", Special Jury Diploma to actress Anastasia Samylova, Special Prize (2021, Russia, Moscow)
- Russian Film Festival "Window to Europe", Special Diploma (2021, Russia, Vyborg)
- Spirit of Fire International Debut Film Festival (2022, Russia, Khanty-Mansiysk)
- NIKA National Film Award for 2021, Longlist (2022, Russia, Moscow)
- Shukshin International Film Festival (2022, Russia, Barnaul)
- Lucania Film Festival (2022, Italy, Pisticci)
- Salón Internacional de la Luz, Best Cinematography - Vladislav Politik (2022, Colombia, Bogota)
- Kazan International Muslim Film Festival (2022, Russia, Kazan)
- Vittorio Veneto Film Festival (2022, Italy, Vittorio Veneto)
- Film Festival Cottbus (2023, Germany, Cottbus)
Director’s statement
The film touches upon the problems of family values, war and loss of kinship between close people. What can a father give to his child if his life is destroyed by the terrible experience of participation in hostilities? How does a child who has been left without parental care and love feel? The story of the film lets you look into the emotional stress of the characters who are trying to correct the mistakes of the past, to accept each other and to find the light of hope inside them.
ABOUT THE FILM DIRECTOR:
Maria Batova was born in 1993 in Moscow, Russia. In 2015 graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University (faculty of philological), in 2017 - Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography VGIK (faculty of screenwriting and film studies). Currently, working as a lecturer of literary and drama and studying in postgraduate studies.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2020 - "The dream is gone", full-length film \ debut