A rapper hunts homeless stories on his phone—then gets an idea that'll haunt you.
A young rapper and musician walks the streets of the city searching for the homeless. He hunts for their stories, which he records on his phone. After one of these sessions, he gets an unusual idea.
Direction
Timofeev turns smartphone footage into moral unease.
Writing
The 'unusual idea' lands like a gut punch.
Director
Petr Timofeev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title's double meaning reveals itself brutally—'bro' as faux-solidarity, 'bum' as both subject and what the film thinks of the protagonist.
Emerges from Russia's 2020s street-culture documentary boom, where TikTok empathy meets questions of who profits from pain.
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