RFW: Dreamfish

Russian Film Week: Screening followed by a Q&A with director Anton Bilzho and actor Vladimir Mishukov

In Russian with English subtitles.
Running time: 1h 20min
Year: 2016
Country: Russia, Estonia
Director: Anton Bilzho
Screenplay: Anton Bilzho, Evgeny Kreov, Lyudmila Kruglova
Producers: Yuliya Mishkinenе, Andrey Bilzho, Ilya Medovy, Aleksandr Plotnikov, Esko Rips
Cast: Vladimir Mishukov, Severija Janusauskaite, Maxim Vitorgan, Andrey Bilzho

Roman is a proofreader, a real intellectual from St. Petersburg, who comes to a small Estonian spa town, to find tranquility and inspiration. He does the proofreading of the encyclopedia of the Baltic Sea Fishes, compiled in the same location by professor Polyanski, a Nobel prize winner. This work is very important for Roman. He would have accomplished his task, but once he swims too far in the sea and it is there and then he meets Helena, who is about to change his life and his perception of the world forever.