Nikita KARTSEV
Никита КАРЦЕВ
Nikita KARTSEV
Russia, 2026, 82mn 
documentary
Hideaway
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Укрытие

 

 Le Refuge

 Ukryte

 
Directed by : Nikita KARTSEV (Никита КАРЦЕВ)
Writing credits : Nikita KARTSEV (Никита КАРЦЕВ)
Cinematography : Nikita KARTSEV (Никита КАРЦЕВ)
Produced by : Nikita KARTSEV (Никита КАРЦЕВ)
 

Plot synopsis
The filmmaker explores the city as a space of constant renewal, where every act of making is followed by demolition. Together they form an unstable closed system, where everything either bears witness or breeds unease. That unease is sharpened not only by the wait for a son’s birth and the rethinking of what it is to be a father, a husband, a man; the world beyond the frame feels unreliable too. Every object that enters the frame has a double life: an outer, literal role (a scaffolding, a hotel room, a balcony, a pavement, the inside of a bus, a poster on a wall, a mother’s womb) and an inner, hidden one, which gives the film its title: "Hideaway".
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Message to Man : International Short, Documentary and Animated Film Festival, St Petersburg (Russia), 2026

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