When a deal with a shady business partner goes sideways, a young man hatches a desperate plan to win back his father's respect: stage his sister's kidnapping, swoop in to save her, and come out looking like a hero. But things spiral fast, and what they find at the end of the road is not a victim, but a survivor — calm, armed, and very much in control.
LATE is a darkly comic thriller about crumbling masculinity, power plays gone wrong, and what happens when the men who thought they were in charge show up just a little too late.
Follow on Instagram SpecificationsKirill Denisov (b. 1996, Moscow) worked in IT while cinema remained a distant ambition — until 2022, when he left Russia and relocated to Rome to enrol in the Cinema programme at RUFA (Rome University of Fine Arts). He works as a writer-director, with a second short film, A Little Off, in development and a TV series co-written with two collaborators. LATE (2026) is his debut film.
