Toli

Anya is a young woman who seeks to discover something about her absent father figure, but the strained relationship with her mother doesn’t allow for much leeway. When the mother brings home a strange male figure, their relationship only gets worse. Between raves and rituals typical of Buryatia, a republic that, despite being part of Russia, is marked by Siberian culture and traditions, Anya strives to rid herself of the anguish in her body.

[Director Statement] ↓

Once I experienced an emotion unusual for me, and I could not give it a name. From this emotion, the scene was subsequently born, and then the film. I tried to preserve this emotion in the film as a kind of artifact that I would like to give life not only in my memory and share it with people. I found this emotion in the scene when a daughter comes to her mother for an abortion.