Short film LIFELESS by Alex Fedosov & Elvira Sinelnik 2020 Arpa IFF

Synopsis: Elza is a tired young mother who has lost her bearings and values in life. She wakes up in the middle of the night, makes herself a cup of coffee and plunges, out of habit, into social media. Elza believes that social media is this ideal world in which everyone is doing just fine, a world in which there are no problems. This dependence has become vital to her everyday life, but this time something goes wrong. A sense of anxiety overcomes her. She is worried about a recent conversation with her husband. She realizes she cannot go on any longer and, in the middle of the night, goes to a bridge, where she plans to take her life. While on the bridge, she encounters a beautiful blonde, Ellie, from this idealistic world of Elza’s social media. Ellie has come to the bridge, seemingly also having come to terms with her own life. Ellie turns out to be more decisive, an attest to either her age or the courage that being slightly intoxicated offers. Elza is at a crossroads. She can either jump off the bridge together with this stranger, or try to save the young Ellie, an exquisite beauty. At the same time, Ellie is perplexed as to what could possibly lead a young mother to the same bridge…a mother who, in Ellie’s opinion, has a wonderful life and a loving family – the stuff of dreams. Diving deeper into this illusory world of Elza’s, Ellie tries to find the answer to her questions.

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