Monday, March 19, 5:00pm, UNC Charlotte main campus, COED 010
Ilmar Raag, Russia, Estonia, Finland, Belorussia, Kazakhstan, 2014/ 109 min
Russian with English subtitles
Made possible with the support of the On-Campus Event Grant awarded to the UNC
Charlotte Russian Club.
Introduction by Kate Skorodinskaya, Lecturer of Russian, UNC Charlotte. Discussion
will follow screening.
Anya is a good-looking, successful young graduate student. She gives lectures on
Byron and has a relationship with one of the professors. One day her life takes an
unexpected turn for the worse. A victim of false accusations, she has to flee, disguised
as a teenaged homeless girl. While on the run, Anya meets twelve-year- old Christine,
an orphan who is as desperate and reckless as Anya herself. This friendship becomes a
turning point for Anya — reliving her adolescence for the second time, she now is forced
to rewrite her life.
Festivals and Awards:
2014 VIII Andrey Tarkovsky International Film Festival "The Mirror": award for
Professional Achievements
2014 Tribeca Film Festival, New York: feature in the Viewpoints section; Nora Ephron
Prize — Special Jury Mention
“Ilmar Raag’s story builds on the genre of the road movie while elegantly incorporating
some of the bittersweet elements of the domestic drama, thus creating a unique, heart-
rending and adventurous mixture.
Anna Batori, KinoKultura, 2015
