Section: Youth Film U18 Competition

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Leave The Group

Mariya Tumova
Russia, 2021, 100 Min

A gripping action thriller, drawing on Russian hip-hop culture and the country's graffiti street art scene, about a teenager going through the trials and tribulations of adolescence. In search of his place in the world Gosha joins a social network to whose members he is required to prove that he's something special. Then, however, he is given the task of carrying out a real murder.

A search for meaning full of verve. Driven by Dostoyevsky's Raskolnikov and Nietzsche's concept of the Superhuman, Gosha ends up in a social media group that recruits children to a mysterious brotherhood and uses violent attacks as a means of cleaning the streets of unworthy people. Gosha is driven by a desire to murder his own father, a violent alcoholic. When tasked with committing real murder however, he doesn't have the heart and is expelled from the group. Soon thereafter, his best friend falls from the roof of a house. A cycle of guilt and atonement begins: in a series of raucous action sequences set to a vibrant soundtrack Gosha himself becomes an activist against the group, in the process uncovering a gigantic conspiracy that soon threatens his own life. In high spirits bordering on the carefree Mariya Tumova stages a collision of hip ghetto aesthetics and fat beats with a sensitive youngster and the big questions in life.

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