The Sludge / Kromeshnost

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2023 | Fiction | 24 min. | Russia | 18+

Roma and Sasha have been living together for eight years. Sasha is a barista in a coffee shop, Roma is a riot policeman. In the morning, everyone goes to work, and in the evening they meet and try to establish a family life that has begun to disintegrate. Sasha suffers from paraphilic personality disorder and enjoys pain and humiliation in sex, but Roma cannot do this ... Sasha goes to BDSM practices secretly from Roma, and Roma goes to work. In the evening they meet and ride a scooter around deserted Moscow…

Directors Statement

The idea of the film came to me after I met a man suffering from paraphilic personality disorder. At first I shot a documentary with this man, and then I decided to shoot a feature film. This is a disorder in which a person cannot enjoy life, in particular sexual, if he or she does not cause pain to someone. It seems to me that this disorder has spread to so many people around the globe. People are used to violence in its various forms. It seems to me that we have all become hidden vigilantes. Everything here is based on violence , and the word tenderness has disappeared from human relations.

Director: Denis Avramov

Producer: Denis Avramov

Сast: Viktor Vorzonin and Alexandra Pronova