Emma

Fedya is a failed business psychologist. During one of his training sessions, while intoxicated, he makes a scene and becomes a laughing stock in the eyes of those around him. In his blog, Fedya broadcasts the "secrets of success," but he himself has long lost control of his life. His daughter Sonya is a withdrawn, problematic teenager. After her mother's death, an insurmountable wall grew between her and her father, and her grandfather took upon himself the girl's upbringing. After a fight with her peers, Sonya risks ending up in a penal colony - to avoid punishment, she is sent to a summer correctional program at a provincial school. Fedya goes with his daughter: to look after her and at the same time work as a school psychologist until the information noise around his name dies down. There is one summer ahead that can change everything.

Inscribed on 16mm, animism sings anarchy is a performative and poetic attempt to translate archaeological research and materials into songs, feelings, movement, and altered states. The film draws on the late Lithuanian anthropologist and archaeologist Marija Gimbutas’s research into Neolithic matrilineal, animist societies—a source of inspiration for artists, academics, and environmentalists associated with second-wave feminism.