Tale Of The Stone Desert

Tale Of The Stone Desert

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Release Date

9/12/2026

Runtime

49 mins

Overview

In the summer of 2025, a group of volunteers sets out on a humanitarian mission to Donbas. The mission is led by Sergey, a volunteer whose life revolves around expeditions to the frontline areas. Along the way, he meets a military doctor known by the call sign "Storyteller." He tells Sergey about the Stone Desert, a place where life and death have changed places. The film is about how, without faith in humanity's ability to overcome death, we are doomed to live inside the dark fairy tale of the Stone Desert.

Status

Released

Original Language

Russian

Budget

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Revenue

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A stark documentary portrait of volunteers facing the unbearable reality of war in Donbas, where a chance meeting with a military doctor forces a reckoning with humanity's fragility and our need for meaning in the face of death.

Mood

Dread-soakedContemplativeMournful

Themes

WarSurvivalFaithMortality

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Meditative

Look

Documentary-likeNaturalistic

Structure

Single location

Heads up

Graphic violence

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Tale Of The Stone Desert (2026) directed by Nikita Kupriyanov | FirstCinema