AFTERLIFE

Sasha, a Russian-American filmmaker living in New York, returns to Moscow as her grandparents prepare for their belated Orthodox wedding. With her camera and a list of questions, she follows them through memories, routines, and sixty years of imperfect devotion. As their story unfolds, Sasha confronts her own sense of displacement—torn between cultures, searching for a self that feels fully hers. The film is entirely inspired by interviews the director conducted with her real grandparents. Their words, memories, and contradictions shaped the script, but everything on screen is performed by actors. It’s a fictional reconstruction grounded in real documentary material — a way of honoring their voices while creating space for interpretation.

Director: Sia Rass

Country: Canada