The Whaler Boy

Competition

Director: Philipp Yuryev

Russia, Poland, Belgium / 2020 / 94´

Leshka lives in an isolated village on the Bering Strait, between Chukotka and Alaska. He is a teenager, and like most men in his village, a whale hunter. With the Internet’s recent arrival in Leshka’s village its male population now gathers in a shed every evening to watch girls dance on the screen of a constantly buffering erotic webcam chat site. For most of the guys, it’s just a bit of fun, but Leshka takes it seriously. He falls in love with a beautiful girl on the chat site, and this first love transforms him beyond recognition.

Screenplay: Philipp Yuryev 

Producer: Alexey Uchitel, Kira Saksaganskaya

Cinematographer: Mikhail Khursevich

Art Director: Georgy Kolotygin

Music: Krzysztof A. Janczak

Editing: Karolina Maciejewska, Alexander Krylov, Philipp Yuryev 

Cast: Vladimir Onokhov, Kristina Asmus, Vladimir Lyubimtsev, Arieh Worthalter 

 

 

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