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Nothing Really Happened

Russian Federation, 2024, 17 minutes, Color, Russian, Ossetian; Turkish captioned, English subtitled


2024 Yale Student Film Festival; Best Narrative

Director:  Dana Arshagti

Screenplay: Dana Arshagti
Cinematography: Anastasiya Davydova
Editing: Alexander Dolberg, Dana Arshagti
Producer: Amur Arsagov
Cast: Amina Agkatseva, Hetag Hinchagov, Leyla Tebloeva

Sandro goes back to her native Ossetia for the funeral of her father and is immediately immersed in the chaos of the ceremony. When she sets foot on the fatherland again, she feels more alienation than a sense of homecoming. She and her brother Geor can feel the crushing weight of an unvoiced truth: Sandro wants to leave forever.