Mars

Mars (2004) is a Russian comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM, the debut feature from director Anna Melikyan. Champion boxer Boris steps off a train at the wrong stop. The station sign reads MARS. The whole town works at a toy factory and gets paid in stuffed animals.

Boris plans to stay one day. In those twenty-four hours he crosses paths with Grigori, a young man chasing a librarian who just wants out, plus a roster of locals each stuck in their own way. Gosha Kutsenko and Evgenia Dobrovolskaya ground the ensemble in something real. Melikyan's eye is on the people who run toward something — and the ones who can't move at all. Stream Mars online on iFILM.