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IFF Message to Man > 2023 > Russian Youth. Present Continuous > Wanna Hug?

Wanna Hug?

Information about the film

Genres: Feature, Short-length

Director: Anastasia Kuzina

Operator: Konstantin Panasyuk

Screenwriter: Anastasia Kuzina

Cast: Александр Чернов, Алеся Алисиевич, Екатерина Дягтерева, Михаил Осташков, Вячеслав Лебелев, Дмитрий Ячевский

Producer: Polina Falaeeva

Producer company : VGIK

Year: 2022

Country: Russia

Duration: 25 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

Synopsis:
Stepan Rodich is a 17-year-old who finds himself in a juvenile correctional facility. He dreams of seeing his mother soon, but she does not respond.

About the director:
Anastasia Kuzina studied for a year at St. Petersburg State Institute of Film and Television in the Alina Rudnitskaya’s workshop of non-fiction cinema, then graduated from the workshop of brothers Kott and Anna Fenchenko at VGIK.

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