Mariya Chernaya

At the end of summer 2021 boys spend their last lazy days together in a small town by the Volga River. Their childish routine of roaming streets, riding scooters and vaping will change so soon — only Slava stays in Yuryevets with his foster family, most of his friends are leaving to study or work in a week. Vlad dreams about a military career. He wants “to save lives” just like characters in his favorite computer games and to earn enough money for his poor parents who work in a local supermarket. At his birthday party the teens argue and try to dissuade Vlad but he has already made his choice. Hope there will be no war in the future — they say.

A documentary about Yana Sidorkina ––a trombone playing, radio enthusiast, blogger from Russia

Krivoluchye is a district in Tula, but you can’t see the familiar city in this film, it’s a reflection, partly mokeymentari about emigration, - abroad, inside the country or, in the end, deep into yourself. Andrei and Oksana have not seen each other for almost a year and are temporarily returning to their small city, from which both left - he is in St. Petersburg, she is in Paris. They are surrounded by many people, each with their own reasons and ways to live in this touching and almost mystical place with an underground podcast, doppelgangers, a gang on scooters ... The geographical boundaries and the boundaries between the true and the imagined are blurred while the characters look for the answer to the question “why leave? or why stay, ”if you can live like in a movie, directing this reality anywhere in the world.

Krivoluchye is a district in Tula, but you can’t see the familiar city in this film, it’s a reflection, partly mokeymentari about emigration, - abroad, inside the country or, in the end, deep into yourself. Andrei and Oksana have not seen each other for almost a year and are temporarily returning to their small city, from which both left - he is in St. Petersburg, she is in Paris. They are surrounded by many people, each with their own reasons and ways to live in this touching and almost mystical place with an underground podcast, doppelgangers, a gang on scooters ... The geographical boundaries and the boundaries between the true and the imagined are blurred while the characters look for the answer to the question “why leave? or why stay, ”if you can live like in a movie, directing this reality anywhere in the world.

Krivoluchye is a district in Tula, but you can’t see the familiar city in this film, it’s a reflection, partly mokeymentari about emigration, - abroad, inside the country or, in the end, deep into yourself. Andrei and Oksana have not seen each other for almost a year and are temporarily returning to their small city, from which both left - he is in St. Petersburg, she is in Paris. They are surrounded by many people, each with their own reasons and ways to live in this touching and almost mystical place with an underground podcast, doppelgangers, a gang on scooters ... The geographical boundaries and the boundaries between the true and the imagined are blurred while the characters look for the answer to the question “why leave? or why stay, ”if you can live like in a movie, directing this reality anywhere in the world.

Krivoluchye is a district in Tula, but you can’t see the familiar city in this film, it’s a reflection, partly mokeymentari about emigration, - abroad, inside the country or, in the end, deep into yourself. Andrei and Oksana have not seen each other for almost a year and are temporarily returning to their small city, from which both left - he is in St. Petersburg, she is in Paris. They are surrounded by many people, each with their own reasons and ways to live in this touching and almost mystical place with an underground podcast, doppelgangers, a gang on scooters ... The geographical boundaries and the boundaries between the true and the imagined are blurred while the characters look for the answer to the question “why leave? or why stay, ”if you can live like in a movie, directing this reality anywhere in the world.