Orleans

Running time: 106 mins

On the brink of nowhere, a great evil has arrived...and he wants to uncover the skeletons in everyone's closet. In the small town of Orleans, life seems frozen in time. The town hairdresser, Lida, and the surgeon, Rudik, are as ordinary as the town itself. Their trivial existence is shattered by the arrival of a strange man, The Executor, who promises endless suffering and seems to be the personification of evil. No matter how much they and the townsfolk try to rid themselves of this "demon," he just won't leave. A combination of mystic thriller and dark comedy, Andrey Proshkin's Orleans forms a modern parable filled with rich characters, merging the mundane with the grotesque and captivating the viewer with a fantastical and exotic world. - Michael Rabehl