Uncle

Uncle (Оцянязе) is a Russian-language drama with an exact release date of April 22, 2025. The film centers on Virineya, an ethnic Moksha woman raised in Moscow who works as an aspiring model in low-budget advertisements, and Vasily, a man of the same nationality employed at a garbage processing facility. Their lives and habits differ sharply — she drinks cold beer on her days off; he plays tennis — yet they share an ancestral homeland they have never visited and a Moksha language neither speaks with much fluency. The story draws on the tension between cultural identity and lived distance from that identity, set against an urban Moscow backdrop.