Heritage

Heritage (2023) is a Russian drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Roman Mikhailov. At 68 minutes and rated 18+, it follows Ruslan — a young man from a small town living an ordinary life of parties and friends until one day he decides to stop calculating and simply trust his own sense of faith.

That decision leads him to the bedside of Tikhon, a dying village healer who has spent his whole life helping people and whom the locals regard with the kind of wary reverence reserved for the uncategorizable. When Tikhon dies and the local priest refuses to bury him, Ruslan steps in to handle it himself. What the film is really after is the question underneath: when you stop being the person everyone expected, do the people around you — family, neighbors, friends — stay? Starring Oleg Chugunov, Fyodor Lavrov, and Evgeny Tkachuk. Stream Heritage online on iFILM.