Encounters

Encounters (2024) is a Russian sci-fi drama you can watch online on iFILM. Life on the planet shifts once alien ships appear, hovering motionless over towns and cities all around the world.

Their passengers, nicknamed "Vitaliki" by locals, secrete a mysterious substance called "prak" — and nobody can say what it's for, or why the visitors came at all. Nina, a nurse from a sleepy provincial town, believes prak might save her dying father, so she works up the nerve to make contact. What she learns about the newcomers upends everything she knew. This isn't an invasion blockbuster; it's intimate, slow-burn science fiction about desperation, hope and the price of knowing, directed by Dmitry Moiseev. Irina Salikova leads, with Sergey Gilyov and Alexey Yarmilko alongside. A hundred minutes of quiet, strange cinema for fans of sci-fi with a human face. Stream Encounters (2024) online on iFILM.