Spirit of Fire

Spirit of Fire

2026

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JUST FRIENDS

Spirit of Fire
2026
international
debut film
festival

Work-in-progress

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JUST FRIENDS

Returning to her hometown, Masha meets Pasha, whom she hasn’t seen for many years. Togetherthey overcome the death of a beloved one thus coming closer to each other. But their lives, fullof dreams and losses, are rather different and drive them apart again and again. Each meetingbrings back the old spark, but neither can decide to anything more. Through trauma and failure,they mature, learn to love, and try to figure out who they are to each other

Director: MARINA KALETSKAYA
Screenwriter: MARINA KALETSKAYA
Producer: IVAN YAKOVENKO, NATALIA TROITSKAYA, DANILA KARMANOV
Cinematographer: VLADIMIR BORISOV
Music: ALEKSEI KANTSYRU
Production Designer: OLGA KHALIMON
Cast: DANIIL PUGAEV, MARINA KALETSKAYA, MILA ERSHOVA, ALEXANDER MIZEV,MARIANNA SHULTZ, IGOR TSAREGORODTSEV, EVGENIA KUZNETSOVA, DARIA POVERENNOVA
Russia
2026
90 min.

Director: MARINA KALETSKAYA

Actress, scriptwriter, film director. In 2015 she graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School (course of Dmitry Brusnikin). Serves at the Brusnikin Workshop Theatre and plays on screen. In 2023 she got a special jury prize at the Koroche Film Festival for her part in the film “Friend, Episode 7”. In 2024 she debuted as a director with a short film “Anton is in Search”, which was selected for the Koroche program, as well as her next directorial work, “Mama Papa Me” (2025, short).