Ded Moroz (Santa Claus) travels through five countries to congratulate children and adults on the New Year, bringing them support and a sense of celebration. At the same time, he tries to understand where his own home is now.
a film by Sergey Karpov
2025
About
In his everyday life, Vasya Sonkin is a film scholar by education and a translator by profession. He is also a husband and a father of two. He finds himself in Istanbul, separated from his family and without any clear prospects. In these new circumstances, he transforms into Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost, russian Santa Claus) and sets off across Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Israel, and Kazakhstan, visiting children and adults to congratulate them on the holiday and help them come to terms with the passing year.
We Are Looking for You Everywhere is the result of a research project by the documentary studio Pole and director Sergey Karpov, dedicated to the feeling of home. Following Ded Moroz’s journey, the filmmakers search for answers to pressing questions of today: what is home? how do we define it? what are we searching for? where are we heading? how can we describe this current state of transition? and most importantly—does there still remain space for dreams and miracles?
Reviews
“Seeking You Everywhere captures a moment of disorientation: no one has any idea what lies ahead. The universal holiday turns into a sequence of silent scenes set against multicolored fireworks—in this flicker of fire and light, no patterns emerge to explain the world around.”
“There is hope in the film. Not the kind often mistaken for expectations or illusions, but the kind that is a virtue—alongside faith and love.”
“The film speaks about emotions familiar to anyone who has ever spent a holiday thousands of kilometers away from their loved ones. That is why it evokes the same feelings as the airport scene in Love Actually: the sadness of parting, and the happiness that these separations may not be forever.”
Sergey Karpov — director
Sergey Karpov is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producer, and researcher. In his work, he combines anthropological approaches to emotions, imagination, and non-human studies with documentary storytelling. He is the author of two feature-length documentaries and since 2021 has run the documentary studio 'Pole'.
- Director and cinematographer:
- Sergey Karpov
- Screenwriter:
- Rita Kilgina
- Editor:
- Elena Khoreva
- Composer:
- Nikita Chernat
- Sound designer :
- Gleb Delfinov
- Colorist:
- Mikhail Khurtsevich
- Designer:
- Aksana Zinchenko
- Producers:
- Sergey Karpov and Sakhamin Trofimov
Pole Film — studio
Pole is an independent documentary studio and educational platform grounded in anthropological thinking. We work at the intersection of contemporary humanities, documentary practice, and ethnographic research.
We explore how human and more-than-human actors live, feel, think, and act in complex realities. We do not aim to simplify them. Instead, we stay close to contradiction, uncertainty, and fragile forms of experience that resist easy interpretation.