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Haqiqa

2025, 120 min, Film essay, documentary. Work-in-progress.

Directors: Anastasia Shubina, Timofey Glinin

Haqiqa is a film-essay on philosophy that explores contemporary philosophical concepts of cinema, consciousness, and identity, as well as Western and Eastern cultures. The film centers on the story of a European philosopher and poet named Offsay, who travels to Morocco for the first time in his life. Accompanied by a film crew documenting his journey — from big cities to small mountain villages — he soon begins filming his own experiences on a small pocket camera. As he immerses himself in Moroccan life, he gradually disappears from the film crew’s view…

The film reconstructs Offsay’s journey through footage of Morocco, Offsay’s notes, and his personal video archive. Through texts and cinematic experiments, it examines the European approach to philosophy and monotheism, entering into dialogue with Eastern culture and Islam. The film presents in the cinematic form the ideas of several philosophers — including Gilles Deleuze, Henri Bergson, Jacques Lacan, Friedrich Nietzsche, alongside Islamic philosophy and Sufism — turning the journey into a philosophical travel guide.