How To Save a Dead Friend

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.

Director Biography

Marusya Syroechkovskaya (1989) is a Moscow-born award-winning Dilmmaker and visual artist, who had to Dlee Russia as the March 2022 crackdown on opposition voices increased. Marusya studied Dilmmaking at the School for Documentary Film in Moscow under professor Marina Razbezhkina and received her MA in Film Directing at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow (graduated with honors).