The Gift

Anya is a young mother who has tried many times in vain to save herself and the child from the growing aggression of her husband. Finding herself in a desperate situation, she learns that there are dark mystical forces that can come to the aid of people like her. Anya invokes the otherworldly sisterhood with a special rite of blood and fire, but now she must decide whether she is ready to go this way to the end.

The tragic and ironic reasoning about the fear of growing-up is shown through the prism of the personal relations of two protagonists. In a restaurant that is appropriate for the occasion a young man proposes to the girl he loves — and is unexpectedly turned down. The protagonists stay together for a few more hours, trying to understand what happened and come to grips with their selves. Gradually they get closer and closer.

Tired of the image of a merry man and a buffoon, Vladimir Marconi decides to leave the career of a successful showman and tries himself in the popular genre of investigative journalism.

5 members of a 3rd rate marching band goes off for a gig. They are driving along a rough road in the Moscow region, in a hopelessly tattered old minibus. They exchange glances with one another, each musician clearly battered by life. Not one of them suspects that this mundane trip for some extra cash will unexpectedly force each and everyone one of them to reconnect with their essence.

Office employee Vasily is forced to spend the Friday evening before the New Year not in a bar with friends and not at home with his family, but at work with his boss, who during a Skype call instructs the hero to urgently make another presentation. The hated boss drives Vasily so much that for the first time in his life he decides to tell him everything he thinks about him — more precisely, write to him in a messenger. The sweet feeling of liberation from office slavery is replaced by anxiety for the future, own and family, especially since the boss immediately starts typing something in response…