Synopsis
You Can't Cry (Плакать нельзя, 2022) is a Russian drama you can watch online on iFILM. A Russian émigré living in Scandinavia sends her son off to school one morning, and he simply never comes home.
Her search runs into a wall. Under the local juvenile-protection laws, the boy now belongs to the state rather than to his mother. The harder she pushes through legal channels, the clearer it becomes that the system was built against her. Ivan Yankovsky and Svetlana Chuykina play people cornered by rules and a language that were never theirs.
Director Natalya Nazarova takes the raw subject of children taken from their families and drives it to a personal breaking point. A heavy, uncomfortable watch for anyone ready for a story with no easy answers. Stream You Can't Cry online on iFILM.
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