With Love and Rage

Alex, a young filmmaker from Saint Petersburg, points his camera at his grandmother, who spent her entire life working at a factory. She speaks of Stakhanovite movements, of love lost in the war, and of a quiet rage that has simmered for decades. The 2026 documentary transforms a family archive into an exploration of the collective memory of a generation. The director avoids direct questioning, allowing the camera to become a silent witness—it captures trembling hands, pauses longer than words, gazes out the window. The narrative unfolds through objects: faded photographs, a shock worker badge, unsent letters. This is a film about how personal history merges with the grand narrative of a nation, and about what remains when an era survives only in memories and unspoken emotions.