A village at the Barents Sea: Bardak served in the navy. After his unit disbanded he stayed behind amidst empty buildings. Poacher Dima has made a sport out of breaking rules and ferryman Aleksander is mired in a silent generational struggle with his own daughter Masha, who dreams of another life. With this documentary Ilya Povolotskiy has succeeded in creating a sensitive and stylistically sure-handed debut.

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Ilya Povolotskiy, born in 1987, graduated from the law department of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation in 2009, and founded the “Black Chamber” production company. He started out as a director of advertisements specializing in experimental and artistic projects. The commercial project PUSH THE LIMIT (2016) for Toyota Russia was honoured with an award at the 27th “Red Apple” International Advertising Festival in Moscow. With his most recent film FROTH he earned a Special Mention at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 2019.

Filmography (selection): 2017 NORTHERNERS, 2019 FROTH