A Rough Draft

A Rough Draft (Chernovik, 2018) is a Russian sci-fi adventure drawn from Sergei Lukyanenko's novel, available to watch online on iFILM. Kirill designs video games in Moscow — until, one morning, everyone he knows simply forgets he ever existed.

The erasure was no accident. Kirill has been picked to man the customs gate between worlds — dozens of parallel Earths he now waves travelers through. His new powers come bundled with sharper questions: who set all this up, and is our own planet merely a "draft" that could one day be rewritten clean? Nikita Volkov leads, with Yulia Peresild, Yevgeny Tsyganov and Andrey Merzlikin around him.

Director Sergei Mokritsky turns Lukyanenko's book into a ride of portals, chases and shifting landscapes. It's big-canvas Russian fantasy for viewers happy to forgive loose logic as long as the spectacle keeps moving. Stream A Rough Draft (2018) online on iFILM.