The SIFFA UK Film Week’19: ‘Strangers of Patience’

A romantic story, rapidly developing into a thriller.

As a renowned talented photographer Andrei Berg is preparing for a prestigious exhibition in Venice, he meets a beautiful ingénue by the name of Marina, who has traveled from Perm to take a pantomime master class. Marina turns out to be deaf and mute. Andrei invites Marina to his house for a portfolio shoot, which extends into the next day and then the next, and the young muse suddently becomes a prisoner. The question of whether genius and evil are compatible is becoming more and more pertinent…

Director: Vladimir Alenikov
Year: 2018

The SIFFA UK Film Week’19 will reprise the best of the SIFFA 2018 festival. It is a great opportunity for Londoners to get a taste of the talent that was showcased in Sochi, Russia, in December 2018. SIFFA has consistently presented outstanding talent every year since its inception in 2016.