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Provinces. Winter. Evening. Bus stop. A car with young guys stops near a beautiful young girl. What happens next, in the literal and figurative sense, happens to everyone. Dedicated to all who are waiting for the bus.

A few minutes from the life of a happy child. A few minutes of joy, discovery, knowledge of new things for themselves. A few minutes of children's tales. Fairy tales are crumbling. Will there be a feeling of happiness?

About an actress who does not play, but through a documentary film tries to dot the rest of her life.

Quiet life ends when the engine of a tank starts up. And trying to fire a shot, whether it is for real or for training purposes, can lead to irreversible consequences. Sometimes these consequences become the beginning of someone’s personal life.

Pianism is the occupation of piano music. Means masterly possession of the instrument. In the life of the main character, the honored artist of Russia, laureate of international competitions Sergey Musaelyan, this term takes a slightly different meaning.

Lena is a bright, disabled girl who, after years spent studying at home, is keen to get back to school. She is assigned to a special class for disabled pupils who have to present themselves before a school commission at the end of the year in order to prove that they merit being moved back into a "normal" class. Her enervated teachers, however, show absolutely no desire to motivate the students and help them improve; on the contrary, they try to quash right from the start any interest Lena shows in more complex study material. Nevertheless, Lena soon involves herself in the school routine and gets together with classmate Anton. Yet their transparent happiness is not to everyone's liking and repercussions soon follow.

This is a story inspired by the novel from the famous Russian writer Evgeny Zamyatin. The story is centered around Sofia, a middle-aged woman who lives with her abusive husband, Trofim. The couple cannot have children and they adopt a teenage mute girl, Anna. Trofim is attracted to Anna, Sofia is jealous and she kills the girl. The couple tries to hide the horrible crime. All this happens in a setting surrounded by water. During a flood.

Young Oksana puts her newly born Denis in a baby box. Sixteen years later she steals him away from a children's home, intent on making amends for her maternal neglect, and to exploit him to earn money in a corrupt legal system.

Many years after a deadly terrorist siege in a Moscow theatre, survivor Natasha returns to the crime scene to hold a memorial evening, finally able to confront her survivor's guilt and her estranged daughter and husband.