Oleg Karavaichuk. Encircling Minstrels

«Rodina» means «homeland». It is a 50 minutes road movie about 2 football fans traveling 3000 km from a rural village to the World Cup. The main hero, Uncle Sasha, has never left his village (the place even without mobile services) for 30 years. For the first time in his life he sees foreigners, big cities and his own country not on a tv screen.

Year after year, a simple farmer from Pskov, François Toulikounkiko, tries to find his original way to succeed in a Russian village and find an answer to the question: "What prevents us from living better?". This is the ironic story of a dreamer of the campaign and true patriot on the struggle against the difficulties of everyday life, big ideas and big projects, "success" that happens where you do not expect it .