Mother and Son (Mat i sin, Russia 1997)

In this 73-minute film, director Alexander Sokurov portrays the life of dying mother and her son. They both live together in the countryside. There isn't much happening in the film, other than occasional walks in the forest. The landscape scenes are beautiful and the classical music used in some sequences combines perfectly with the overall atmosphere, which is quite sad, to say the least. Mother and son talk about life and death, about happiness and sadness and about the fear of dying. However, there is very little dialogue. For a feature length film with only two actors, this is good stuff.