Ruletista

The coffee machine in the kitchen, the ticking clock in the living room, the lift in the hallway – these are the sounds in the life of an 85-year-old. A portrait of loneliness captured through sound.

Each apartment contains a different life, as we see in this dilapidated apartment complex in Estonia. A dryly comic portrait of togetherness and loneliness, in which everyone is separated only by a thin wall.

In this tragicomic tale of resilience and urban transformation, a former sniper turned elevator operator wages a quiet battle against bureaucracy when her lift in a monumental housing block in Tbilisi breaks down.