Agniya

Agniya (2025) is a Russian social drama from Pavla Stratulat that you can watch online on iFILM. In the Far North, a stubborn stove-builder raises her son alone, fishes through a hole in the ice and lives in a condemned, barely heated house.

Seasonal work won't cover a new home, and Boris, the local administration head, is in no rush to relocate the settlement. Agniya agrees to build a stove in his cabin and slowly grows attached to him. But she reaches her real goal — a move to a proper flat — by a route no one sees coming. Evgenia Gromova plays the lead, with Sergei Gilyov as Boris.

Stratulat films northern life without varnish: the cold, the empty pockets, and a will that refuses to bend. A hard heroine with no victim's halo, made for anyone who likes Russian auteur cinema about surviving on the margins. The 18+ rating here is earned. Stream Agniya (2025) online on iFILM.