THE CRASH follows a mother standing at the edge of losing her children, weighing a decision no parent should have to make. Written and directed by Alex Makarov, the film draws a quiet, deliberate parallel between a family destroyed in an instant and one that comes apart piece by piece — asking what really separates a catastrophe imposed from outside from one two people build between themselves.

The story grew out of a thought that, in the director’s own words, has sat like a splinter in his mind for years: that none of us are separate from what happens to one another, and that love, however it is tested, remains the only thing worth measuring a life by. THE CRASH is not a film about divorce — it is a film about authorship: about the decisions that define a life, especially in its worst moments, and the chance that remains, for as long as we are here, to choose differently.