Kak menya zovut (2014)

	Also Known As: Name me
	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Nigina Sayfullaeva
	Actors: Konstantin Lavronenko, Alexandra Bortich, Marina Vasilieva
	Country: RUS
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 23.09.2014, Antiguo Berri, FSSDZ2014, Russian/Ukranian with Spanish/English subtitles
Synopsis: Two 17-years old Moscowite girls, Olya and Sasha, are going to the Crimea to meet Olya's father Sergey  (Lavronenko). Little did they know that the innocent joke they invent will turn into great drama and their lives forever.
Review: The story presents two girls characters very different and the impact of not having had a father on them. Moreover it shows their evolution when they encounter an image of father. For Olya her real father and for Sasha her pretended father. The changes are amazing of subtlety in the dramatisation and strength in the emotion. These extremes that appear quite unrealistic had been chosen by the director to enhance the situation and create emotions in the public.  The scenery for each scene enhances also the emotion to be felt in the scene. The acting is extreme and therefore looks a bit unrealistic. But in these extreme roles, the three main actors are convincing.  In the discussion after the movie, Sayfullaeva explained that the team of non-actors (except Lavronenko) lived together during the shooting in order to get more of the binding supposed to be seen between father and daughters.  For her concepts and methods, I find the director very promising.
Rating: 7 /10