Babe

Seventeen years old, and one question won't let go: why did her mother walk away. Babe (2024) is a Russian coming-of-age drama you can watch online on iFILM. Dasha lives with a father whose love has curdled into suffocating control, and one day she simply runs — off to find the woman who left her behind.

The search leads her to a mother who has forgotten how to love. There is none of the warmth Dasha spent years imagining, only awkwardness, old hurt, and the strange work of getting to know a near-stranger. Director Irina Basenko refuses the easy reunion ending. She films this as a hard, honest reckoning with abandonment and the question of whether a broken bond can ever be repaired.

Maria Matsel carries the lead, with Viktoriya Isakova as the mother and Aleksey Rozin as the father. The 18+ rating isn't about shock value — the film is adult in tone and pulls no punches. It's for viewers who like intimate psychological drama about family with no varnish on it. Stream Babe (2024) online on iFILM.