Description
Synopsis:
This is the story of three teenagers: 13-year-old Marsel from Kyrgyzstan, 12-year-old Mukhamad from Tajikistan, and 11-year-old Rustam from Uzbekistan. Their parents are economic migrants who have moved to St. Petersburg in order to feed their families. This is where the boys met each other: they moved into apartments on the same stairwell in the same building, and became friends.
This is a tale of life in a foreign country that still isn’t home for the boys’ parents, and it is unclear whether it will become home for these lads when they grow up.
This is a tale of youth, its freedom, courage, naivety and foolishness, when you are still too young to find answers to serious questions, but already old enough to have a share of freedom, a freedom that they are greedily exploring
About the director:
Elena Murganova. A director, she graduated from the philological faculty of St. Petersburg State University (2013), then worked for three years as a cameraman and editor at Anton Tut Ryadom, a charity foundation for people with autism. In 2017 she graduated from Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov’s School of Documentary Film and Theatre.
Her debut documentary film Inzhener Fyodorovich (2018) was awarded prizes
at the Listapad IFF (Minsk), Kinoproba, Dvizhenie and Voznesensky FEST festivals, and was also screened at Pesaro and Tel Aviv, among others.