Mom, I befriended ghosts, Fiction, 40 min
A small town in Siberia is trapped for many months of quarantine. People die from a mysterious disease, which comes from water. Survivors hide in their flats - but the running water is just as poisoned. Self-defense groups are moving along the empty streets and desperate loners are hunting for their fellows. A young girl is trying to save her dying mother. She sets out into the unknown to overcome her fear and trying to rebuild the relations with the outer world that has become man’s mortal enemy. “Mom, I Befriended Ghosts” is an attempt to imagine the changed relations between people and nature when the first cease the reason of being humans and the second receives an opportunity to get rid of them.
Credits
Director / script / editor: Vladimir Sorokin
DP: Evgeniy Rodin
Cast: Sasha Nikiforova, Taya, Alla Mitrofanova, Sergey Semenov
Producers: Vladimir Sorokin, Pavel Karykhalin
Executive producers: Anna Tafrova, Olga Fomina, Olga Zorina
Composer: Daniil Avramenko
Sound: Ivan Erofeev
Costume: Sasha Nguen
Set designer: Ilya Illay
Designer: Yuri Stepantcev
Production: Stereotactic
Moscow 2020
Festivals
Torino film festival 2020 Italy
New Holland Island International Debut Film Festival 2020 Russia
Cinefantasy International Fantastic Film Festival 2021 Brazil
Fantasy Film Festival of Bilbao 2021 Spain
Chattanooga Film Festival 2021 US
Portobello film festival 2021 UK
CineEco 2021 Portugal