We Lived A Happy Life

Directed by Ilya Leutin

Lyudmila Ivanovna is 83 years old, she has memory problems, she is raising a grandson. Alyosha is 16, he is finishing school and preparing to enter the University. One Sunday morning the police burst into the house. Alyosha is arrested. Lyudmila Ivanovna is trying to understand what her grandson did. The words “meme”, “repost” and “extremism” are unfamiliar to her. Thus begins Lyudmila Ivanovna’s journey into the life of her grandson and the social problems of the Russian outback.