Length: 95’
Language: Russian
Shooting location: Russia, the Kola Peninsula.
Synopsis: Nine years old Andrey lives on the outskirt of a small village near the White Sea. Nervous, tired of poverty and fatherlessness mother keeps Andrey in constant tension and beats him. She threatens to send son to the orphanage at the slightest misconduct from the his side. Once Andrey finds a dead dog on the seashore in a storm - he decides that it is a mystical beast Chupacabra, a goat vampire, which will save his mother from ills and help them to reunite. Andrey heard on TV that whom Chupacabra bites at the full moon will become Chupacabra himself. Andrey scratches his hand the dead fang.
"For me it is very important to make a debut picture about childhood - the necessary distance has already been passed, but feelings and memories are still hot. I was born near the sea. There was my first death experience. Sound of waves and wind is the sound of my childhood, tears of mother is my main humane feeling. Andrey, this small autistic boy, sincerely believes that there is no death, that he can find love by sacrificing himself. This is a film about the ordeal of a little Holy child. It is a ‘Life of Saint Andrey’".