The Gulls
Elza lives in a small town in the Republic of Kalmykia on the Caspian Sea. Another year comes to an end, it’s cold and the steppe is covered in a thin layer of snow. When her husband, who makes a living from illegal fishing, asks her one night what she did during the day, she lies. She wasn’t at her mother’s, but at the bus stop. She thought of leaving – to find out what it might be to escape the infinite expanse of her dreary small world. But she didn’t dare; instead she stays and withdraws into herself, unconcerned by who might see. One day, her husband doesn’t return from a dangerous boat trip. It is said that a fisherman only returns if he has a woman waiting for him and that seagulls are the souls of the missing. At the start of a somewhat unplanned pregnancy, widowed and alone, Elza wanders ever further through the city, plotting a path between tradition and the contemporary until she’s no longer on familiar ground.
Featured Crew
| Denis Bauer | Production Design |
| Tatyana Sarana | Producer |
| Ella Manzheeva | Director |
| Sergey Ivanov | Editor |
| Elena Glikman | Producer |
| Anton Silaev | Original Music Composer |
| Alexandr Kuznetsov | Director of Photography |
| Ella Manzheeva | Screenplay |
| Viktoriya Lupik | Producer |
