NUMBERS

• Oleksandr Yarema
• Iryna Mak
• Viktor Zhdanov

In addition to being a filmmaker, Ukrainian Oleg Sentsov is one of the most famous political prisoners of the 21st century, imprisoned by Russia between 2014 and 2019 for alleged terrorist acts. Upon regaining his freedom, he shot this dystopian science fiction story, with unmistakable Orwellian echoes, which poses a ridiculous world in which people survive in groups of ten (five men and five women), locked in a room where they are forced to repeat incoherent and unrelated rituals at the orders of a leader named The Great Zero. Until the appearance of a child threatens to subvert the established order… Claustrophobic and distressing, this film contains a more than evident plea against totalitarianism.

The story of a dystopian society of ten Numbers stuck in daily routines regulated by strict rules set out by an omnipresent deity, the Great Zero, and enforced by armed Judges. In this strictly ordered world an error occurred causing the creation of a new world. Will it be any better than the old one?