Brother

With his wedding to Carlos approaching, Tony, a young immigrant to the United States, makes a hopeful decision: he invites his conservative older sister to the ceremony. It is a gesture of love and an act of faith, and it forces a reckoning he has spent years avoiding. As the day draws near, Tony must confront the distance between the family he was born into and the family he has built, and decide which one he is willing to fight for. Aleksei Borovikov's short film Brother is a quiet, emotionally precise drama about immigration, faith, and the cost of being fully seen by the people who raised you. Anton Paraskiva leads a sensitive cast in a story that finds grace in the hardest conversations.