How to Save a Dead Friend

by Marusya Syroechkovskaya

How to Save a Dead Friend

Germany, France, Norway, Sweden | 2022 | 103:00 min

Formal Categories

Biography / Portrait Current Affairs Human Interest Society Children / Youth Conflicts

Content Categories

Documentary

Synopsis

Marusya is 16 and, like many Russian teenagers, is determined to end her life. Then she meets her soulmate in another millennial, Kimi. They spend a decade filming the euphoria and anxiety, the happiness and misery of their youth, muzzled by a violent and autocratic regime in the midst of a “depressed Russia”. This film is a cry from the heart, a tribute to an entire silenced generation. [Visions du Réel]

Festivals/Awards

2022
Special Mention – Visions du Reel
IndieLisboa International Film Festival 
ACID Cannes 
DOK.fest Munich
Wild Dreamer Award – Subversive Film Festival Croatia
DOCAVIV
Underhill Fest 
Documentaire sur grand écran 
Resistance Cinema 
Golden Apricot IFF 
Guanajuato IFF 
:DOKUFEST , Prizren, Kosovo
Nordisk Panorama, Malmö, Schweden
IDFA – Best of Fests
Golden Key – 39 Kassel Documentary FF
Grand Prix long-métrageat– IFF d'Amiens 
Festival Les Ecrans Documentaires
shortlisted European Film Award 'European Documentary'
Youth Jury Award (UPV/EHU) from ZINEBI64 
Cork IFF
Grand Jury Prize – 13 DOC NYC  
2023
CROSSING EUROPE Linz

Cast and Crew

Director Marusya Syroechkovskaya
Producer Ksenia Gapchenko (Docs Vostok), Mario Adamson (Sisyfos Film )
Director of Photography Marusya Syroechkovskaya, Kimi Morev
Editor Qutaiba Barhamji
Score Felix Mikensky

Original Languages

Russian

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Links / Reference

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