I want to go to moscow
Director: Sarah Baskin
United States, 2024, 12 min
Festival Year:2025
Category:Narrative Short
Genres:Comedy, Drama, Dark Comedy, Dramedy
Cast:Arielle Goldman, Olivia Oguma, June Miner, Evelyn Bulls, Alisa Golden, Niko Gray, Allegra Tumbleson, Tristan Capilouto, Mai Bui, Merritt Janson, Karl Bury, Liza Fernandez, Arjun Gupta, Elizabeth Cappuccino, Eve Austin, Becca Faulkenberry.
Crew:Writer: Sarah Baskin. Producers: Julie Bersani, Sarah Baskin. Executive Producers: David Siegel, Liza Fernandez, Andrew Carlberg.
Email:sarasomaproductions@gmail.com
Synopsis
Mara is a disillusioned actor dealing with the terror of time. When she’s thrown into a classroom of kids rehearsing a Disneyfied version of Chekhov's THREE SISTERS — her favorite play about existential longing — she swan dives into her own crisis of aging, nostalgia, and the loss of childhood dreams.
About the director
Sarah Baskin is an award-winning filmmaker and actor, originally from Montreal and now based in New York. She has worked extensively on stage and screen, with recent performances in Netflix's A Family Affair (opposite Zac Efron and Joey King), Ramy, and independent films that have screened at Sundance, Cannes, TIFF, and Telluride. She is currently collaborating with playwright Cheri Magid on a one-woman play A Poem and a Mistake, which premiered at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and heads to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer. As a director, her short film Les Câlins Cheaps (Cheap Hugs) screened at over 30 festivals worldwide.