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LULLABY QUEEN
TSARITSA KOLYBELNAYA
Short,
Russian Federation
2024
Runtime, min
21
A middle-aged man returns home to his wife, but ends up in an empty apartment with her things packed away. He tries to call her, his efforts are in vain, the phone is unreachable. He lies down on the sofa to think about the situation and how to get out of it, after thinking a little he begins to hear knocking throughout the room. These knocks lead him to his wife’s phone, which was lying behind the nightstand. Having turned it on, he realizes that his wife has renamed him “ex.” Not understanding anything, he goes to the kitchen for dinner.During dinner, he hears a strong quarrel between neighbors, which ends with the husband beating in front of their child. A neighbor's conflict leads the main character to the bathroom where he witnesses sex behind the wall, then he sees a piece of a woman's dress in the room, runs out, but there is no one. There is a pistol on the floor in a pool of blood in the sofa, a woman’s voice intensifies along with the knocking in the room, which leads him into a state of passion and he shoots himself in the head in front of the closet in which the beaten wife was sitting.
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