Sasha

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Sasha

Sasha

original title:

Sasha

directed by:

cast:

Anya Patokina, Stepan Belozerov, Polina Fedina, Viktoriya Tolstoganova, Margarita Tolstoganova, Pavel Yuzhakov-Kharlanchuk, Alexandr Ryazantsev, Konstantin Shpakov, Nikolay Klyamchuk, Natalia Sapozhnikova, Anastasiya Volynskaya

screenplay:

Vladimir Bek, Anna Efimova

cinematography:

Anton Gromov

editing:

set design:

costume design:

Irina Rovbel

world sales:

country:

RussiaItaly

year:

2022

film run:

118'

format:

colour

festivals & awards:

  • Lucca Film Festival 2023: Premio della giuria popolare, premio “Marcello Petrozziello”, Premio della giuria studentesca

Sasha, 15, moves in with her father, a stranger whom she hardly knows and has not seen for years. Neither he nor she is happy about this, but that’s the way it is. Protesting against the decision that adults made for her, she shaves her head, puts on her grandfather’s old leather jacket and runs away from home. As she looks like this, short-haired and lost, the local teenagers – Maxim and a girl nicknamed Mouse – mistake Sasha for a boy. That’s how the girl suddenly gets a chance to enter a new world of her peers, a fascinating and sometimes dangerous one. Sasha pretends to be a different person, unaware of how far this lie will take her.