Comedy Drama "Intermission": Premiere in Berlin

The plot of the film tells the story of twelve schoolchildren from a Kaluga theater club who are flying to Sochi for a festival. The children are accompanied by a strict deputy headmistress, Maria Genrikhovna (Polina Kutepova), and a young leader of the children's theater club, Tanya (Darya Savelyeva), who is no less childish than her charges. While the two very different women try to find common ground, the young actors go through their own personal dramas, and the play itself ends up in jeopardy. On top of that, the contest organizers put forward unexpectedly absurd demands. Even the title of the production becomes unwelcome, and "strawberry wine" is soon replaced with the safer "nectar."

Cast: Darya Savelyeva, Polina Kutepova, Irina Nosova, Magoga Machulskaya, Marfa Ivanova, Yegor Leontyev, Andrei Permyakov

Director: Anna Kuznetsova
Cinematography: Janne-Petteri Passi
Editing: Dasha Danilova, Anna Kuznetsova
Production Designer: Viktoria Fetisova
Sound Designer: Sergei Shiposha
Producer: Natalia Drozd
Creative Producer: Boris Khlebnikov

Country: Russia, Finland, 2023
Runtime: 119 min.
Language: Russian with English subtitles (OmeU)

The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film's producer, Natalia Drozd

The film was awarded the Grand Prix of the "Mayak" Festival of Contemporary Russian Cinema 2023, and the "White Elephant" national award of film critics and journalists for "Best Feature Debut."