In the Mood for Love directed by Artem Terekhin is an original work inspired by the film of the same name by Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai. According to the plot, a young man named Alexander, whom his friends call simply San, is sorting through the junk in the apartment left to him by his father and finds a diary covered in hieroglyphs. Dasha, the fiancée of his best friend, helps San translate the text from Chinese into Russian. Someone else's secret brings the guys together, and at some point they are faced with a choice: to repeat the story from the diary, which resembles the plot of Kar-wai's drama, or to correct the mistakes of the past.

In two parallel worlds, the action takes place in different languages: in Russian in modern Moscow and - in Chinese, with Russian surtitles in Hong Kong in the sixties.

"I would really like the audience to leave the show feeling slightly in love," says the director. "In the Mood for Love is a story about happiness that never happened. I like it because it poses a question not only about love and choice, but also about a missed chance to be truly happy."

In the Mood for Love directed by Artem Terekhin, along with the productions Youth by Galina Zaltsman and My Brother Is Dead by Maxim Sokolov, is part of the cycle dedicated to studying film texts that was launched in November 2024 as part of the interdisciplinary project Layer.