Scum Pictures

A Kafkaesque courtroom drama set in 19th-century Liverpool, recounting the trial of a corpse with neither name nor past. Dozens have gathered for the absurd ceremony — and perhaps to deliver justice.

Fedor is a young locksmith in Murmansk, a frozen city in the obscurity of the Russian Arctic. Client after client, he roams through the alleys of concrete animated by a fantasy that isolates him from the city and its population. His dreams corrode his relation to reality and open the door to a phantasmagoric universe; a second sun is rising above the Russian Arctic.

An innumerable host of working-class angels, invisible to the human eye, labour tirelessly on earth to power our machines and to keep our homes warm and light. When one day some of them attempt to escape, a massive blackout follows and the world as we know it is thrown into chaos.