In Blokpost it's what we don't know that tantalises and perhaps, ultimately, repels.

Somewhere in Russia a war is raging, but it's an odd one. There are no battlefields, but every peasant is a possible suspect or victim. Men, barely past their school years, are the murderers of a child - an "accident" in a mine explosion. The mother is wounded and her grief precipitates a wild shooting spree.

An equal part of the mystery is the forest. Who are the killers, who are the victims? The punishment is 30 days at the blokpost, or checkpoint.

Blokpost is directed and written by Alexander Rogozhkin, whose first feature, Karaoul, won the FIPRESCI prize at the 1990 Berlinale. Owen Levy