Cosmonauts 80/81

«It's an interesting entrance — all the neighbors are characters, and you could talk about each one for hours, even though Mika has lived here for quite a short time — three weeks since she moved in». This is how... the novel by Mila Fakhrutdinova, a young prose writer from Kazakhstan, begins. The story of Mika could be told by Erlend Loe — with his love for joyful absurdity, or by Karl Ove Knausgård, ready to meditate over every fallen eyelash. In fact, this book is composed of such seemingly unimportant «eyelashes». It all starts with the theft of an expensive carpet that the heroine briefly put outside the door, and continues with a strange semi-fantastical «trip» throughout the city, during which a real psychic even appears... Everything we love about Scandinavian prose «hygge», and everything we have not yet had the time to love about contemporary prose from Kazakhstan, has merged in this novel. Touching, funny, quirky, and sincere, like loneliness. Mila Fakhrutdinova is a prose writer and screenwriter from the generation of thirty-somethings. 2014—2015 — Cult Bureau, with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, directing. 2015—2017 — MSHNK, workshop of D. Mamuliia, directing cinema. 2016—2018 — MIR-5, master B. Yukhazanov, directing theater and cinema. 2020—2021 — philosophy of art, master A. Velikanov. Berlinale Talents Short Film Station 2014, Kinolaboratoriya A. Sokurov, Generation Campus at the Moscow International Film Festival, screenwriting workshop R. McKee. «Cosmonauts 80/81 — a novel about my peers, about people I know firsthand, and about those problems that I want to and have the right to talk about».