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Original Film Title: The Sleep of Reason
Director’s Name: Aleksandr Akhmedov
Writer’s Name: Aleksandr Akhmedov
Producer: Aleksandr Akhmedov
Country of Origin: Kazakhstan
Country of Filming: Russian Federation
Language: Russian
Runtime: 21 minutes 17 seconds
Film Description:
A renowned poet is haunted by dreams that prophesy his death. Confronted with the choice to surrender to his end or defy destiny, he is drawn into a maelstrom by specters of the pastβwhere time fractures, and the boundaries between memory and prophecy, dream and waking life, dissolve. In this liminal space, the buried truths of his hometown unravel before him.