Russian Windows

Russian Windows is a rumination on the webbased relationship of a Russian teacher stranded in Ghent and her American student Olivia Ebertz film documents her encounters with her teacher Varya which gain an increasingly endearing and intimate dimension as the filmmaker begins to internetstalk her exploring Varyas photos on Instagram traversing her hometown on Google Street View looking up reviews of shops in her neighborhood and musing about her private life in broken Russian voiceover