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May 02, 2017
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 Wake Me Up from Indie Vision

Thriller, Drama / 95 min / Russian / 2016



 A film by Guillaume Protsenko (producer of the multi award-winning project "Cinetrain": SUNDANCE, VISIONS DU REEL, FESTIVAL DEL FILM LOCARNO, etc.)



Cinematographer: John Craine ("Cinetrain")



Cast: Irina Verbitskaya, Konstantin Lavronenko (Best Actor prize – Cannes Film Festival, "The Banishment" by Andrey Zvyagintsev), Kirill Pirogov ("Brother 2", "Sisters"), Evgeniy Grishkovets ("The Stroll")



Moscow today, Zhenia works at the passport control department in an airport. A year ago her boyfriend had to leave Russia suddenly and vanished abroad. Zhenia remains stuck in her unhappy life, unable to move forward. In the menacing and distressing state, she starts developing a strange ability for dark and prophetic dreams that gradually take her deeper and deeper into a violent criminal world in which she seems to have a significant role to play. Moving between nightmares and reality, cruelty and her true love, Zhenia believes she can trick destiny and get her life back...

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About us

Indie Vision, an operating branch of Russian World Vision, based in Moscow, focuses on selling independent East-European feature and documentary films, which are carefully selected from the plenty of content and culturally relevant to nowadays.



Indie Vision has entered the market to make best indie films from the region recognisable worldwide.



It is managed by the team experienced in acquisitions, festival programming and film promotion - Marianna Ibragimova and Alisa Stolyarova, who have been working in the field of independent distribution since 2008.

 

 

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