A practical joke ends up very wrong in Nigina Sayfullaevas curious youth drama. Two seventeen year old Moscow girls, Olya and Sasha, are visiting Olya's long lost father who lives in Crimea, when they decide to switch places and pretend to be the other person to the father. Little do they know that their joke comes with consequenses that will change their lives forever.
Acting
Bortich and Vasilyeva nail the brittle confidence of teenage girls.
Direction
Sayfullaeva captures Crimea's liminal beauty as emotional pressure cooker.
Director
Nigina Sayfullaeva
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 2013 Crimea, the film unintentionally documents a region on the brink of political transformation — making its themes of disputed identity eerily prescient.
Sayfullaeva based the party sequence on real Moscow teen culture, where elaborate dachas become stages for performative adulthood that collapses by morning.
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