Impasse

Alexey returns to his hometown after ten years away to sell his father's apartment. At the doorstep, he meets Maria — the woman he once loved and left. Now she lives across the hall, married to his former best friend. Over three days of paperwork, the past rises between them like a wall of silence and unspoken words. The 2025 drama explores how time turns emotions into ruins and reunions into trials. Director Anton Sokolov builds an intimate story on minimalism of gestures and pauses, where the real drama unfolds in the spaces between dialogue. A ghost town of Soviet-era apartment blocks becomes a metaphor for relationships frozen at the moment of separation.