Director, Camera: Kirill Sakharnov
Script: Kirill Sakharnov, Ksenia Sakharnova
Cast: mit Olya Kuracheva, Galiya Galeeva
Editor: Maxim Kliewer (aea), Kirill Sakharnov
Producers: Jürgen Karasek, Filip Anton Malinowski, Ksenia Sakharnova, Vladislav Ketkovich
Production: soleil film
Co-production: SugarDocs, Ethnogeographic Research Foundation/Ethnofund

Russia under Vladimir Putin. Despite vehement criminalization, the charismatic Olya fights for a self-determined life for LGBT people: A life in which she is allowed to be happy with her partner Galiya. The camera image’s home-video aesthetic corresponds with the documentary claim: tender, never voyeuristic, opening up is the normality of an everyday life that is not allowed to exist in Russia. The story of a love despite social and political repression.