Alisa Kolosova

Yalda, Solveigh and Lou have shared a close friendship since childhood. But when Solveigh suddenly takes her own life, Yalda and Lou are left with the lingering question: how could it come to this and which one of them is more suitable to take custody of Solveigh’s five-year-old daughter?

In a utopian future free of wars, hier­archies and discrimination, a young Black woman must decide whether to inherit or erase the trauma of her ancestors.

In 2020s Berlin, 95-year-old Leonid Berezin, along with other surviving eyewitnesses, is fighting to keep alive the memory of a nearly forgotten Nazi war crime: at the age of twelve, he survived the Siege of Leningrad—the systematic starvation of what is now Saint Petersburg.