Aziz Al Gazzar

A young boy goes to a cursed brook and witnesses something that will seal his fate.

Shot on a single roll of Super 8mm film, with no editing or retakes, Russia follows a poor young man from rural Egypt as he confronts a haunting memory of his past and the lingering weight of his actions. Inspired by Emad Abu Saleh’s poem “Killer.”

A mysterious force haunts an Egyptian village, where women are blamed for the end of mankind as fear, superstition, and collective guilt take hold.