Kalimba (Season 1)

Kalimba (Калимба, 2024) is a Russian detective thriller you can watch online on iFILM, led by Fyodor Bondarchuk. Ambitious psychiatry professor Viktor Meshchersky launches an experiment no clinic would ever sign off on.

Under a false pretext he locks victims and their abusers together in a basement and watches, keeping his real aim hidden. The setup slips out of his hands fast, and the investigation that follows untangles not just what happened down there but the professor's own motives, knotting every participant's story into a single thread. Director Nurbek Egen surrounds Bondarchuk with a strong cast — Sergey Garmash, Alyona Mikhaylova and Pyotr Skvortsov. The hook is moral fog: who's the tormentor and who's the test subject stays unclear longer than you'd expect. Stream Kalimba (2024) online on iFILM.