Vera

Vera builds her whole life around other people's troubles, and she's fine with that. The drama Vera (2024) is available to watch online on iFILM — a quiet portrait of a woman whose settled world cracks just when she thought it was solid. Her days revolve around a perpetually ailing husband, Kostya, and their fifteen-year-old son, Romka.

The calm breaks when her husband's first love resurfaces: the striking Lyudmila, this time with a daughter named Yulya. There's nothing remarkable about the girl, yet Romka falls for her anyway. Suddenly Vera, who has spent years disappearing into her family, starts weighing divorce, splitting the apartment, and any way to pull her son away from Yulya.

Directed by Irina Volkova, the film stars Viktoria Tolstoganova, with Olga Sutulova and Alexey Rozin beside her. It plays in a low key, with no melodramatic outbursts — a story about a woman who notices, late, that nobody ever asked what she wanted. Best suited to viewers who like intimate family drama built on half-tones rather than shouting. Stream Vera (2024) online on iFILM.