A 24-minute Russian indie about virality, vanity, and teenage dreams getting too real.
Seventeen-year-old Yuna lives with her mother and grandmother in a small town. She makes music, writes poetry and runs her blog in her free time from two schools. Yuna's work is noticed by documentary filmmaker Pasha, who is making a film about the music industry. He wants to find out - how to make a hit? What is needed for this? And how to become a star?
Acting
Nelly Uvarova's naturalistic teenage affectation.
Direction
Soghomonyan's tight 24-minute economy of storytelling.
Director
Lamara Soghomonyan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Russian indie cinema's 2020s boom of micro-budget Gen-Z portraits, often distributed via YouTube and VK before traditional festivals.
The title 'Muzzzlo' plays on Russian slang for music ('muzlo') with added z's suggesting sleep/ZZZ — ambition as exhaustion.
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