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IDFA 2022

How to Save a Dead Friend

Marusya Syroechkovskaya
Sweden, Norway, France, Germany
2022
103 min
Dutch Premiere
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Marusya Syroechkovskaya is a suicidal teenager when she meets troubled Kimi Morev. She knows right away that she has found a kindred spirit. “He had scars on his wrists and he knew every single Joy Division song by heart,” she says in the voice-over of her personal debut film. But where love gives her a new perspective, he fights his demons with more and more drugs. So Syroechkovskaya focuses her ambitions on recording the loss of her loved one.

How to Save a Dead Friend, which has won awards at festivals including Visions du Réel in Switzerland, is more than a portrait of a hopeless drug addict. Syroechkovskaya shows how many of her contemporaries are struggling with childhood trauma and a lack of prospects. Drugs and suicide take a heavy toll among Russian millennials. “Life is merciless,” Morev concludes, after he’s locked up in a state hospital for addicts.

Credits
Director
Production
    Ksenia Gapchenko for Docs Vostok,
    Mario Adamson for Sisyfos Film Production
    Ksenia Gapchenko for Docs Vostok,
    Mario Adamson for Sisyfos Film Production
Cinematography
Sound
    Gasan Hagverdiev,
    Ada Laub
    Gasan Hagverdiev,
    Ada Laub
Sound Design
    Yngve Leidulv Sætre,
    Thomas Angell Endresen
    Yngve Leidulv Sætre,
    Thomas Angell Endresen
Music
    Felix Mikensky,
    Ryan McGee for VOSIS: Image and video audification synthesizer
    Felix Mikensky,
    Ryan McGee for VOSIS: Image and video audification synthesizer
Distribution for the Netherlands
    Periscoop Film
    Periscoop Film
Involved TV Channel
    RBB/ARTE,
    Lyon Capitale TV
    RBB/ARTE,
    Lyon Capitale TV
Screening copy
    Lightdox
    Lightdox
World Sales
    Lightdox
    Lightdox

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