detours

16mm, digital, 73 min

hybrid feature
2021



dir. ekaterina selenkina
foley sarah ibrahim

supported by
Bright Future Award of Hubert Bals Fund of Rotterdam Film Festival
Eurimages Award for work in progress at Les Arcs Film Festival
Boost NL Development Program

screenings
Venice International Film Critics' Week Viennale
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
Thessaloniki International Film Festival

detours

16mm, digital, 73 min
hybrid feature
2021



A sprawling meditation on the choreography of bodies in Moscow’s urban landscape, Detours depicts a new way of dealing illicit drugs via the Darknet, the layering of the physical and the virtual realities, as well as a poetics, and politics, of space. Taking place in sleepy neighbourhoods, among the concrete walls of high-rises, behind garages and amidst abandoned railroads, the film alternately follows and loses track of Denis, the treasureman who hides stashes of drugs all over the city.