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CRUMB

Director: Elena Kulesh

Alyoshin is a pupil of a correctional orphanage. To confirm his legal capacity and get out, he interns at a bakery. There he falls in love with a coworker and makes up an affair. Yet reality takes over the fiction, but he finds the strength to fight for his right to love and freedom.

Details

Duration: 28min.

Country: Russian Federation

Language: Russian

Year: 2025

Genre: Fiction (Drama)

Topic: Adolescence, Discrimination, Every Day Life, Freedom, Friendship, Human Relationship, Human Rights, Identity, Loneliness, Love, Relationship, Social, Society, Underground, Youth, Youth/Teen

Cast & Crew

Director: Elena Kulesh

Production company: Self-financed and produced

Writer: Elena Kulesh

Cinematographer: Alexander Sisnev

Editor: Andrey Soustin

Music: Sonia Skobeleva

Actors: OLEG IVANOV , ALEXANDER SHAGANOV , ALEXANDER ALESHIN ,

Festivals & Awards

2025

Oberhausen International Short Film Festival Oberhausen International Short Film Festival The main prize of the Jury of the NRW Ministry of Culture and Science

Leeds International Film Festival

2026

Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival (TISFF)

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