Mariya Atlas-Popova

This story is based on numerous real-life stories of those who chose to stay unnamed. A young provincial girl full of vitality, who is dancing to “My Boy,” doesn’t even suspect that soon, when she goes to conquer the capital, she will meet a man, and that this meeting will put an abrupt end to her dreams. The heroine will turn into “that woman,” the mistress. The one who is being kept. She will have to walk the way. She will forget her bright hopes and lose herself completely for the sake of wealth. Will she nd the strength to escape the never-ending awaiting, emptiness and humiliation? Is she still capable of this step after so many years of being “kept”?

Six various novels united in a one movie.

A former research assistant Pasha is trying to invent defocusin at home. The substance that will render public persons' image to be out of focus in unwanted pictures. For about half a year Pasha has been testing the substance prototypes on his wife...

Based on the Armenian ‘Sharakan’, a nine-part song that brings us gradually closer to meaning, Maria Saakyan’s new film further develops the poetic invention apparent in her first feature, The Lighthouse. Focusing on the world of a 14-year-old girl, Evridika, who is experiencing the first extremes of adolescent emotion, it makes effective and imaginative use of her private world centred on internet chat rooms and mobile phone recordings.