Youngling

Youngling (Malysh, 2026) is a Russian war drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Andrei Simonov. 114 minutes. The main character is a young rapper from Donetsk — someone with no political allegiances and no appetite for causes. Then his mother is trapped in besieged Mariupol, and he signs up as a volunteer. Not for any idea. To bring one person home.

Gleb Kalyuzhny stars, alongside Ivan Alexeyev, Polina Agureyeva and Yuri Nazarov. The film keeps the scale deliberately small: one destination, one man moving toward it, one phone call that has to connect. It measures its stakes in personal terms rather than military ones, which is what sets it apart from the wider war genre. Stream Youngling online on iFILM.