Mira

Mira is a 2022 Russian science-fiction disaster film directed by Dmitry Kiselyov about family values and love for one's family and friends. It stars Veronika Ustimova and Anatoliy Beliy. It was theatrically released on December 22, 2022. In Russia, the film was released on the night of December 18, 2022, as promoted by First channel. Plot 15-year-old Valeria ‘Lera’ Arabova lives in Vladivostok with her mother Svetlana, stepfather Boris and 8-year-old half-brother Yegor. She suffers from pyrophobia after surviving a fire inside an elevator when she was younger, which led to her parents’s divorce. Her father, flight engineer Valery Arabov, member of space station Mira, uses satellite technology and artificial intelligence to monitor her, but both remain otherwise estranged. Arabov’s team watches a meteor shower expected to appear above the Western Pacific and to be harmless, despite his colleague Igor Khripunov’s warnings on the possibility of changes in its size and trajectory, which occur at last minute, impacting the station as well as vast areas in Far East Russia, Korea, Japan, and Australasia. Lera witnesses the impact and narrowly escapes her building, running into her school friend Misha, when a blast separates them and causes her to be hit by a middle-aged couple on a van who attempt to escape the destruction and drive her to a hospital before crashing and abandoning the vehicle. As a nearby building collapses, Lera shelters inside a toy store, but is trapped by the debris.