Beanpole

Kantemir Balagov / RU, 2019 / 137 min.

Leningrad, 1945, war is over. Iya and Masha are two survivors who have to start all over again, in extreme circumstances. In his second feature film, the young Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov exposes survivor trauma in a way that is hard to forget. The film won the International Film Critics Prize at Cannes.