INFO
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Director |
Anastasia Veber |
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Genre |
Documentary, Fiction, Experimental |
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Duration |
20’ |
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Year |
2026 |
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Nationality |
Germany, France, Belgium, Malta |
SYNOPSYS
Once upon a time, there lived a boy. The army summoned him — a fate he dreaded. Desperate to escape, he asked the Mysterious Lake for guidance. The Lake sent him into the underground world, where lost souls would help him seek a way out. His encounters become increasingly surreal and turn into an opera of horror and salvation.
STILLS
CREDITS
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Director |
Anastasia Veber |
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Genre |
Documentary, Fiction, Experimental |
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Duration |
20′ |
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Nationality |
Germany, France, Belgium, Malta |
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Production |
Veber Films E.K. The Project.Paris Harald House Limestone Pictures Ataeian & Barth Gbr |
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Producers |
Anastasia Veber Daniil Goroshko Kristian Van Der Heyden Michael Carol Bartolo Sina Ataeian Alec Barth |
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Screenplay And Libretto |
Anastasia Veber |
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Directors Of Photography |
Anastasia Veber Egor Sevastyanov |
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1 Assistant Directors |
Natalya Belova Polina Berestovaya |
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Sound Recording |
Natalya Belova Polina Berestovaya Anastasia Veber |
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Editing |
Natalya Belova Anastasia Veber |
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Color-Grading |
Alec Barth Dmitry Novikov |
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Vfx Artist |
Niklas Poweleit |
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Clean-Up |
Natalya Belova |
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Artistic Libretto Translation |
Max Avdeev (English, 1 Version) Danilo Micic (German, 1 Version) Theo Barnett (English, 2 Version) Nastastasya Tikhnovetskaya (German, 2 Version) |
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Choir Arrangements, Choir Recording |
Danilo Mićić |
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Choir |
Slavic Voices |
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Recording Engineers |
Hristiyan Bistrishki Tilman Eberle |
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Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer |
Danilo Mićić |
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Re-Recording Mixer: |
Vojtěch Cibulka |
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Thanks to |
Katrin Burchard (Nordmedia – Film- Und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen Mbh) Michał Honnens (Nordmedia – Film- Und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen Mbh) Stefan Becker (Stiftung Kulturregion Hannover) Friederike Kohn (Stiftung Kulturregion Hannover) Gundlach Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Svetlana Dolya (Kibbuz – Zentrum Für Kunst, Kultur Und Bildung E.V.) Studioboerne45 Gefördert Mit Mitteln Der Nordmedia – Film- Und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen Mbh |
AWARDS AND SELECTIONS
2026 - OSCAR ®, BAFTA ® QUALIFYING
World Premiere
57. Visions du Réel
2026
Official Selection
12. FILMADRID Festival Internacional de Cine
ANASTASIA VEBER
BIOGRAPHY
Anastasia Veber is a Berlin-based director, writer and producer. Her graduation short film Trap won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlinale in 2022. Her earlier short Syndrome IO received two awards at the 65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
Her work explores themes of youth discrimination and religious discourse, often blending cinematic storytelling with other mediums of art.
Participant of Cannes Cinéfondation Residency and Torino ScriptLab with her feature project Kindergarten Optimists. She studied directing at the Saint Petersburg School of New Cinema and screenwriting at the Saint Petersburg University of Cinema and Television, and also teaches film and leads workshops on the cinematic exploration of reality.
FILMOGRAPHY
OPERA OF HORROR AND SALVATION
2026
SEDATED
2023
TRAP
2022
SYNDROME IO
2019