Synopsis
The Firebird (2025) is a Russian art-house drama you can watch online on iFILM. A stage actress and dancer flies to India to track down the mother who walked out on her years ago and vanished into a sect.
The deeper she searches, the less solid the world becomes. Is this really an Indian town, or the painted scenery of her own theatre back in St. Petersburg? Masks, puppets, ritual songs — the line between waking life and performance dissolves completely. Aleksandra Kiseleva carries the lead in a near-trance register, while director Roman Mikhailov deliberately refuses the viewer anything firm to stand on.
This is hypnotic, 18+ auteur cinema, not a film with a tidy plot. For anyone drawn to dreamlike, ceremonial theatre on screen, The Firebird opens all the way up. Stream it online on iFILM.
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