Short Feature Film
2025

Country: Russia
Runtime 00:13:16
Rating: 12+
Director: Ksenia Abasheva (pseudonym – Deva Abasheva)
Scriptwriter: Maria Bordovskikh with Ksenia Abasheva contributing
Producers:Maria Bordovskikh, Galina Strizhevskaya, Marika Mikhareva
Cameraman:Nikita Karmen
Sound engineer: Flysound
Composer: Esenia Kovaleva (Senitsa)
Artist: Ilya Ashmarin
Starring: Oleg Savostyuk, Maria Bordovskikh, Mila Yershova, Vitaly Andreev, Nikita Khudyakov
Production: Infinity Production, LLC

The protagonist is a school student Styopa, who has hearing impairment and who is in love with Yulia, his schoolmate. At the graduation party, he has to make a choice of his life – to confess his feelings to her or not. The film presents two parallel plot lines, demonstrating alternative outcomes of their relationship, depending on Stepa’s decision at the graduation party – a long-term relationship leading to a family, or separation.The voiceover text in a poetic form reveals the inner world of the characters and the peculiarities of communication with hearing challenged people. 
The aim of the project is to contribute to changing public stereotypes about people with disabilities.