Tomas Neumann
Lilya 4-Ever
2003
R
In director Lukas Moodysson's gut-wrenching drama, Oksana Akinshina stars as the 16-year-old title character who's left to fend for herself in a blighted Estonian suburb when her mother (Lyubov Agapova) abandons her to move to America. Eager to escape her grim surroundings and seek a bright future, she falls victim to the promises of the charming Andrei (Pavel Ponomaryov), only to find a new life in Sweden worse than the one she left behind.