"They say that Russia is a technically backward country," writes birchpunk. "There are no roads, robotics do not develop, rockets do not fly, and mail goes too long. It's a bullshit."
Written and directed by: Sergey Vasiliev Acting: Sergei Chikhachev Olga Zhevakina
Is there a specific term for this genre? Neill Blomkamp, Simon Stålenhag, Jakub Rozalski. It's typically cast as "dystopian" and of course "cyberpunk" but that doesn't signal the social realist qualities of the footage and of the people (or the robots) depicted.