명석하면서 아이러니한 성향을 가진 작가 세르게이 도블라토프의 일생 중 6일간의 삶을 기록한 작품. 알렉세이 게르만 주니어는 철권통치 시대에서 금지당한 작가의 삶을 우아한 스타일로 형상화한다.

"모난 돌이 정 맞는다"는 속담이 있다. 대학교수 다비트는 시장의 부정부패를 풍자하는 캐리커쳐를 그렸다가 도리어 횡령으로 고발당해 가택연금에 처하게 된다. 우리 엄마와 우리 고향 사람들이 모두 자랑스러워하는, 6개 국어를 구사하는 지성인으로, 떳떳함과 결백함을 주장하며 골리앗에 무릎 꿇지 않겠다고 다짐하던 다비트는 싸움이 길어지면서 점점 망가지는 아파트처럼 건강이 피폐해지고 가족들까지 위협에 노출된다. (제26회 부산국제영화제)

The amazing and tragic life story of the Russian Paralympic judoka Oleg Kretsul. Having lost his sight in a car accident, Kretsul did not give up the sport and was subsequently able to win Olympic gold at the Paralympics in Beijing.

러시아혁명 100주년인 2017년을 배경으로 푸틴식 전체주의가 만연한 러시아의 초상을 그리고 있다. 이 장엄한 부조리극은 블랙코미디와 잔혹드라마를 오가며 정형화된 형식을 거부한다.

Young female fighter pilots arrive to the frontline. They have different stories and different fates. They are getting older, falling in love and lose their closest ones as well as take their place in the world of men. The air has become their home. However, at war no one knows whose fate is to live and who is doomed to die.

After four years in prison, Olya decides to start over. And first of all she wants to get her ten-year-old daughter back. However, the overbearing grandma isn't letting her grandchild go without a fight. The family conflict quickly gets out of control and turns into a wild chase. And it definitely won't end well for everyone.

The Humorist is a film about a week in the life of Boris Arkadiev, a fictional Soviet stand-up comedian. Boris is tormented not only by external oppression and censorship but also by his own insecurities that poison all his relationships.

The story takes place against the backcloth of the world sauna championships in Helsinki as a Russian man tries to earn some much needed money.

1984, Sverdlovsk, USSR. A shy freshman, an entrepreneur, a poet and two charming it-girls navigate life in a student dorm, sharing their griefs and joys, all for one and one for all. Suddenly a horrible accident blows up the life of the dorm when a female student commits suicide. The dorm is a miniature model of the world that encapsulates the full range of human passions, acts of bravery and cowardice, aspirations for virtue and failures, of love, friendship and betrayal.

Six various novels united in a one movie.

The entire family of a 6-year-old Anna dies in the mass coordinated execution of Jews. The mother covers up Anna with her own body, and the girl miraculously survives. For the next few hundred days Anna hides in the disused chimney at the Nazi Commandant's office. From her shelter she watches as life passes her by until the village is liberated from the Nazi. In these inhuman conditions Anna not only survives but keeps her humanity. Many factors help her: memories from the life swept away by war, the cultural foundations laid by the parents and a friend who saves her from loneliness.

무합바트는 우즈베크인 이민자로 모스크바 외곽의 편의점에서 일한다. 이곳의 다른 이민자들과 마찬가지로 그녀는 돈도 받지 못하고 정신적, 육체적 학대를 견디며 어쩔 수 없이 일한다. 무합바트는 두려움을 극복하고 자신의 운명을 개척하기로 한다.

Film about the order of things: everyone has his own.

Oleg is a regular office clerk. His days are grey and almost identical. Taking care of his small son has become passive pandering to a capricious child. But Oleg leads a double life — he is hooked on stimulants, an interest he shares with his mistress. He buys the drugs through the Darknet and regularly picks up the stashes. The story follows him on another quest for synthetic emotions, but this time Oleg has no idea what’s coming for him.

“Bloodrop” is an experimental short directed by Aleksei Popogrebsky. Originally part of the Experiment 5ive omnibus, hence the black envelope with the picture inside, which had to be the common element of all 5 films.

During a nationwide moral panic caused by a recent spike in teenage suicides two federal investigators are sent to a small Russian town to review a cold case involving a suspicious death of a schoolgirl. Initially seeing their task as a mere PR stunt both gradually start to loose their focus as they venture deeper into the paranoid world of conspiracy theories surrounding the case.

1943 year. Alma-Ata. The hero of the film is a young Michurin fruit grower who revives a medicinal apple variety and investigates a strange crime. The script was written based on the book by Mikhail Zoshchenko "Before the Sunrise".

A fight en route to an airport leads an ordinary Moscow couple to split on a whim. With Nikita ending up in Thailand and Zhenya in Berlin, both find themselves in two separate love triangles, inadvertently causing chaos in others' relationships as they attempt to fix theirs. But even continents apart, their lives turn out to be more intricately connected than they realize.

A husband, a wife and another woman. Only three are in the frame.

Do you know what goes on in the head of someone who walks past you?