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Unclenching the fists

From the producer of Leviathan and Loveless
In a former mining town in North Ossetia, a young woman struggles to escape the stifling hold of the family she loves as much as she rejects.
High in the mountains of North Ossetia, a small mining town of Mizur nestles between the sheer cliffs. Following certain dramatic events, Zaur moved his children Ada, Akim and Dakko here. Zaur is a strict father who prizes discipline above all and doesn’t feel the difference between care and overprotection. His eldest son, Akim, already escaped from his father to work in Rostov, the closest city to Mizur. His younger brother, Dakko, has yet to decide what he wants from life, and their sister Ada is actively planning her escape. She is a grown woman but her father still treats her as a baby. Ada will soon realize that it will be very hard to escape her father's embrace and begin her own new life. The return of her older brother Akim will illuminate the family’s unspoken and unhealed traumas.
Original title
Razzhimaya kulaki
English title
Unclenching the fists
Year
2021
Country
Language
RU
Subtitles
CZ
Running time
97 min
Genre
Age rating
15+
Release date CZ
21. 4. 2022
Release date SK
21. 4. 2022

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Awards

Cannes IFF
Un Certain Regard Award
2021
Russia's national NIKA film awards
Nominee | Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Film Editing, Discovery of the Year
2022
European Film Awards
Best Editing
2021

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"Daring and complex leap by Kovalenko”
The Wrap
"A dark slice of neorealism”

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