Придурок

Pridurok (2024) is a short Russian drama you can watch online on iFILM. A lonely young seamstress named Masha rents a flat from Valery, a widower still raw from burying his wife.

He can't sit with the grief, so he drops by Masha's place almost daily — for tea, for talk, for any excuse not to be alone. For her, it's a quiet weight: her own love life never gets room to breathe. In barely twenty-two minutes, director Ekaterina Alikina, who also turns up on screen, unpacks the line behind its tagline — loneliness is a choice, not a sentence. Small, tender, unhurried, with nothing overplayed. Stream Pridurok online on iFILM.