To be Ready

"To Be Ready" (2025) is a 15-minute Russian short film you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Maxim Markov. A man is found dead in an apartment. His wife (Ekaterina Chermnych) sits across from the investigator. Her alibi is airtight. Also impossible: she spent the entire day with extraterrestrials.

Mikhail Asten plays the detective faced with that statement and no good place to put it. Part thriller, part deadpan comedy — short enough to fit between things, and strange enough to linger afterward. Stream "To Be Ready" (2025) on iFILM.