A Queer Review of the Austin Film Festival (2023)
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
To Grandfather's Village
10-year-old Vladik is a genius of neural networks and a master at getting rid of nannies. When his mother urgently needs to go on a business trip, he has to go to the village to visit his grandfather, whom he has never seen in his life. Vladik dreams of returning to the city and getting into an important IT competition, and his grandfather has no intention of following his lead. Each of them is sure that they can easily outsmart the other, but this meeting will change them both.
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10-year-old Vladik is a genius of neural networks and a master at getting rid of nannies. When his mother urgently needs to go on a business trip, he has to go to the village to visit his grandfather, whom he has never seen in his life. Vladik dreams of returning to the city and getting into an important IT competition, and his grandfather has no intention of following his lead. Each of them is sure that they can easily outsmart the other, but this meeting will change them both.
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Genre:Comedy, Family
Written By:Aleksandr Berezhnoy
In Theaters:
Box Office:$10,549,632
Runtime:91 minutes
Studio:Big Screen Production, Infiniti Content, R1 Film Company
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