À seize ans, Marusya est déterminée à en finir avec la vie, comme beaucoup d’adolescent·e·s russes. Puis, elle rencontre l’âme sœur chez un autre millenial du nom de Kimi. Pendant dix années, ils filment l’euphorie et l’anxiété, le bonheur et la misère de leur jeunesse muselée par un régime violent et autocratique au sein d’une « Russie de la Déprime ». Un cri du cœur, un hommage à toute une génération réduite au silence.
2021
How to save a dead friend
How to save a dead friend
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Marusya Syroechkovaskaya
Kimi Morev and Marusya Syroechkovskaya
Felix Mikensky
Qutiba Barhamji
Ksenia Gapchenko, Mario Adamson, Marusya Syroechkovskaya, Anita Norfolk et Alexandre Cornu
Sisyfos Film Production, Docs Vostok, Folk Film, Les Films du Tambour de Soie, Marusya Syroechkovskaya, Lyon Capitale TV, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg in collaboration with ARTE
the CNC – Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée
the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, with the participation of the CNC
the PROCIREP-Society of producers and the ANGOA
The Swedish Film Institute
Film Commissioner Anna Weiss
The Norwegian Film Institute
Film Commissioner Klara Nilsson Grunning
Western Norway Film Centre
Film Commissioner Jesper Bergom-Larsson
The Fritt Ord Foundation
IDFA Bertha Fund
Lightdox
Special Mention in the International Competition at Visions du Réel 2022
Wild Dreamer Award for Best Documentary at Subversive Film Festival 2022
“Maslačak” Award in International Competition at Underhill Festival 2022
Special Jury Mention in the Feature Documentary category at Guanajuato International Film Festival 2022
Award for Best Female Director at Sofia Documental 2022
Best Production Award at AegeanDocs 2022
Grand Prix of the Mediterranean Film Festival in Široki Brijeg 2022
The Prize of the International Film Critics presented by FIPRESCI at Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal FNC 2022
Special Jury Award in the International Competition at Antenna IDFF 2022
The Explore Zone Award at Film Fest Ghent 2022
“Gian Paolo Paoli” Award for Best Anthropological Film at Festival dei Popoli 2022
Grand Jury Award in International Competition at DOC NYC 2022
World Premiere: Visions du Réel – April 2022
2022 Indielisboa (Portuguese Premiere)
2022 Dok.fest Munich (German Premiere)
2022 Subversive Film Festival
2022 ACID Cannes
2022 Docaviv IDFF (Israeli Premiere)
2022 Underhill Fest
2022 Yerevan IFF Golden Apricot
2022 Guanajuato IFF
2022 Dokufest
2022 Fifigrot
2022 Sofia Documental (Bulgarian Premiere)
2022 Nordisk Panorama FF (Swedish Premiere)
2022 Athens IFF (Greek Premiere)
2022 AegeanDocs
2022 Busan IFF (South Korean Premiere)
2022 Mediterranean Film Festival, Široki Brijeg
2022 Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal FNC (North American Premiere)
2022 Film Festival Ghent (Belgian Premiere)
2022 Antenna IDFF (Australian Premiere)
2022 EDOC Festival Ecuador
2022 Bergen IFF (Norwegian Premiere)
2022 Film Festival Cologne
2022 Rendezvous With Madness FF
2022 Festival dei Popoli (Italian Premiere)
2022 DOC NYC (US Premiere)
2022 IDFA (Dutch Premiere)
2022 Noordelijk Film Festival
2022 Festival International du Film d’Amiens
2022 Cork International FF (Irish Premiere)
2022 Zinebi FF
2022 Kasseler Dokfest
2022 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Estonian Premiere)
2022 Les Ecrans Documentaires
2022 FIDOCS (Chilean Premiere)
2022 Transit Film Festival
2022 Singapore International Film Festival
2023 Tournai Ramdam Festival
2023 Festival Black Movie
2023 Premiers Plans – Angers Film Festival
2023 Festival de cinéma En ville
2023 DocPoint Helsinki
2023 Big Sky DFF
2023 IDFF Artdocfest/Riga (Latvian Premiere)
2023 Tempo Documentary Festival
2023 HUMAN Rights Human Wrongs
2023 RAI Film Festival (UK Premiere)
2023 One World Prague
2023 Sands IFF St. Andrews
2023 BAFICI – Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival
2023 Chronic Youth Film Festival
2023 Crossing Europe (Austrian Premiere)
2023 DocumentaMadrid
2023 DOXA
2023 Beldocs (Serbian Premiere)
2023 Flying Broom
2023 Rhodope International Documentary Film Fest
2023 Faito Doc Festival
2024 Triste Film Festival
She studied filmmaking at the School for Documentary Film in Moscow under professor Marina Razbezhkina and received her MA in Film Directing at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow (graduated with honors). Her student short, Exploration of Confinement received a Jury Award at the New Orleans Film Festival 2013 and was long-listed for the 2013 Academy Awards. It was also selected for the 35th Moscow International Film Festival, the Message to Man International Film Festival 2013, Tenerife Shorts Film Festival 2014, and a number of other international film festivals. Her training includes workshops such as Ex Oriente Film, Flahertiana, and IDFAcademy. She received a fellowship from Nipkow Programm (Berlin, Germany). Marusya is a member of the Russian Documentary Guild (RGDoc) and EDN.
