Short documentary
2025

Country: Russia
Runtime: 25 min
Rating: 16+
Director: Kirill Alyokhin
Scriptwriters: Kirill Alyokhin, Alexander Gavrilov
Producer: Kirill Alyokhin, Pavel Roitberg
Cameraman: Mitya Smirnov
Sound engineer: Mitya Krupenya (site), Alexander Sokolov (postproduction)
Composer: Eduard Konovalov
Artist: Liza Amelina
Starring: Ilya Zolotukhin (‘Bond with a Button’), Sofya Belyaeva, Ekaterina Nechaeva, Natalia Tsukanova, Damir Mukhamedzhanov, Nikita Gorelkin, Ilya Zinin, Peter Antonov
Production: letsplay.team и FakePublish supported by the Institute for Internet Development

Russia experiences a boom of independent music. 90,000 new tracks pop up on streaming services daily. 20-year-old guys with guitars burst into the charts, with millions of listeners on music services and on social media. Who is the listeners’ choice today?
‘Bond with a Button’ is a mesmerizing indie folk band from the town of Neftekamsk. I’m sure you’ve heard thier ‘Kitchen’, but as frontman Ilya Zolotukhin says, “Please give a try to something else!” There’s strength and longing, pulse and hope in every song.