Gonella Productions

LANGUAGE: English

Genre: Psychological horror, Thriller
Running Time: 22 minutes 26 seconds
Year of production: 2025

SYNOPSIS

A young woman performs an ancestral ritual to sever the generational curse that has haunted her family for decades. What appears to be a self-destructive breakdown reveals a carefully planned act of liberation — a decisive break from inherited trauma.

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

Production Company: Independent / Elijah Shenko (Ilya Shushenkov)
Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions

CAST

Lyra - Elizaveta Epimakhova
Grandma Mirelda - Elijah Shenko / Elizaveta Epimakhova
Great-grandmother Thalassa - Pavel Serebryannikov / Elijah Shenko
Mother Aviva - Yuliya Gnatyuk
Eli - Elijah Shenko

MAIN CREDITS

Director: Elijah Shenko (Ilya Shushenkov)
Screenwriter: Elijah Shenko (Ilya Shushenkov)
Producer: Elijah Shenko (Ilya Shushenkov)
Director of Photography: Elijah Shenko (Ilya Shushenkov)
Sound: Elijah Shenko (Ilya Shushenkov)
Editing: Elijah Shenko (Ilya Shushenkov)
Sound Editing: Elijah Shenko (Ilya Shushenkov)
Music Composer: Elijah Shenko (Ilya Shushenkov)
Original Soundtrack: Elizaveta Epimakhova, Yuliya Gnatyuk & Nadezhda Stepenskaya
Licensed Music: Jane’s Party, Yael Krauss, Company Gun (via Artlist license)

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Genre: Psychological horror, Thriller
Sub-genre: Mystical, Visual metaphor, Avant-garde
Language: English
Country of origin: Kazakhstan
Year of production: 2025
Total running time: 22 minutes 26 seconds
Shooting format: Digital - 4K
Color type: Rec.709
Aspect ratio: 2.23:1 (presented within 16:9 letterbox)
Sound format: Stereo (48 kHz)

AWARDS

Official Selection: First-Time Filmmaker Sessions (UK)

FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

First-Time Filmmaker Sessions (UK)