Wild Ancestors

Wild Ancestors (2022) is a Russian family comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Directors Vladimir Bolgov and Yuriy Bunin set the story on New Year's Eve 1999 — the night the millennium turns. Two young people got married without asking their families: he's from a Cossack household, she's from a Tatar one, and neither side has moved on.

Then a son is born, and the central question — baptize or circumcise — pulls both clans into a full-scale battle of traditions. The ensemble includes Aleksei Buldakov, Roza Khairullina, Natalya Chistyakova-Ionova, Kamil Larin, Anna Ukolova, and Inga Oboldina. A warm, genuinely funny film about how much family friction comes from loving people the wrong way. Stream Wild Ancestors online on iFILM.