Very Feminine Stories
Five different stories about women - their loved ones, passion, family and what they really want in life.
Natalya Merkulova
Anna Sarukhanova
Oksana Mikheeva
Anton Bilzho
Lika Yatkovskaya
Also Directed by Natalya Merkulova
Egor Korshunov (40) is a Siberian forest guard who works in a local environmental company, fighting fearlessly against poachers in taiga. Egor is a great family man, respected by his fellow villagers. He and his wife Natalia are expecting a second child. Unexpectedly, Egor finds out that he has terminal cancer and has only two months left to live. No traditional medicine or shamanic magic can save Egor. Finally, left with no other options, he decides to take the last desperate step. He attempts to completely change his identity in order to fool the oncoming death, just like Zhamba the drake, the hero of a legendary ancient Siberian epos, did.
Moscow. High rise. Here, on the 12th floor, is the office of the call center "Online Store for Adults". One morning, twelve people who are in the office suddenly find out that there is a bomb in the room. The voices of the unknowns who introduced themselves as Dad and Mom threaten to blow it up at any time if the hostages do not follow their instructions. While the countdown is going on, they will have to experience the absolute power of invisible sadists and learn something about each other’s life that they did not even suspect.
A movie about one broken arm, love, sex, betrayal, hate, separation, Alfred Hitchkock, female panties and slightly salted pickles. Natalia Merkulova constantly interviewed her depressed 34-old boyfiend Liosha for several months talking about male-female relationship. The result is this 25 minutes long very honest documentary.
Fast-paced story of pre-death repentance marathon for the Captain of the National Security Service (NKVD) Fedor Volkonogov set against the backdrop of 1938 political persecutions in USSR.
Yana is a chief editor of a glamorous magazine whose life completely changes after she is pushed to adopt a little gipsy boy Yanko.
A movie about looking for the main substance.
This is the story that could be behind the famous photo of Alexander Rodchenko "Stairs". Moscow, 1929. The end of the era of constructivism in the USSR. A young woman comes to visit a middle-aged woman to resolve their complicated relationship.
This is a story about three best friends: Shura, Yulya and Anya. They are 18 years old, all the most important things in life are happening for the first time, and they approach everything with youthful zeal and maximalism. Shura Ermakova falls in love with a teacher and on the same day she learns that her mother returned to her family, who left her as a child. Yulia Kuzmina can never break off relationships with her boyfriend, a policeman who constantly cheats on her, and Anya Silkina, using the connections of her dad-producer, comes up with a new career once a week.
Also Directed by Anna Sarukhanova
In the flow of ordinary days and thoughts trying to outrun the wind, sometimes there is a situation when it is necessary to make a choice and give up your sincere loneliness.
What do children do when the whole world is in isolation due to the coronavirus and they have to spend all their time at home? Do they go to online classes? Do they call friends? Improvise on the piano? Sunbath on the balcony? Do they easily adapt to their isolation? This film follows the lives of two small dreamers, stuck in isolation in Tbilisi during the spring of 2020, the spring of the coronavirus.
They’ve grown up and are ready to enter into a new world, in the anticipation of the exam to get in the Architectural Institute. The rest of life goes on in parallel, everyone has their own problems, their reasons to cry, to choke on grief. The line, which they have to cross, looms ahead.
Set in Tbilisi, the film’s protagonist walks through the city’s streets as he contemplates whether to accept a job abroad or to stay at home with his family and girlfriend.
Spring is a time of love, lightness and endorphins. But the spring of 2020 turned out to be very different, isolating us from each other. The Vesna project tells 14 stories about people who, like all of us, found themselves in quarantine, but were able to learn something important and valuable from this experience. Moscow promoter Andrey Algorithmik, who self-isolated himself in the Powerhouse club he founded; Tbilisi gallerist Giorgi Rodionov, who started recording a podcast about dreams; sex blogger Alina Shikut, who launched an online course about accepting your body; a Director who went to a remote village, and a famous photographer who takes pictures of empty Moscow-14 documentary sketches add up to a General portrait of an optimist in quarantine: after all, spring is also a time of renewal.
Two sisters bring a parcel to the grandfather’s house. The door is open and he is away. And because of that they have to make a choice.
Film speaks about the reality that exists in Georgia in parallel with the other, the one that is in plain sight. The main character, trying to find and realize himself, loses the line between reality and illusion and loses an alter ego. After a desperate attempt to somehow realize his plans, he again "finds himself." This is a tender portrait of identity shot in a subtle mix between documentary and fiction.
Mariam is a 22 years old actress, she works in a cafe, where customers can order any companion they wish. Any can have a dinner with a best friend, a cup of tea with a grandfather, or coffee with a lover. One day she meets Levan in the cafe, a nature defender, who tries to change her point of view about the cafe she's working in.
The project of Olga Zhirova and Julia Vorobieva
Lena gets mixed up in an adventure of her girlfriend and agrees to participate in an exhibition. Unexpectedly she becomes a living statue: before hundreds of long- ing eyes, deprived of the possibility to move or speak – everything that remains is to meet herself and her inner enemies.
Also Directed by Oksana Mikheeva
Russia. The near future. The country’s authorities have passed a law about the rental of men for a certain period, after which they should be returned to the spouse... In order to keep her husband, Anna decides to try a trick, but the plan is spoiled by her husband, who is perfectly happy with the new law...
Six various novels united in a one movie.
A former research assistant Pasha is trying to invent defocusin at home. The substance that will render public persons' image to be out of focus in unwanted pictures. For about half a year Pasha has been testing the substance prototypes on his wife...
Short film for the Action! 2020
Also Directed by Anton Bilzho
A woman who loves dogs lives in her world full of passions.
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A collective film created within the framework of the laboratory "Ya. Fear. Claustrophobia", consisting of videos that were filmed at the beginning of quarantine - from May 2020 to August 2021. Anyone could take part in the project.
Short stories shot by four different directors on 8 mm film. The first story by Dmitry Ryabikov is a real field test for a feature which was done as experimental film about the Creation of the World. The second story is an action short by Dorji Galsanov about problems and understanding between two friends. The third one from Anton Bilzho, a teaser for upcoming thriller, is about love to invisible creature. And the fourth story by Anton Sokolov is about love to aliens - a logical final of all parts.
Roman is a born proofreader from a family of proofreaders, a real intellectual from St. Petersburg who comes to Narva-Jõesuu, a small Estonian spa town, to find inspiration, tranquility, and silence. He does proofreading of the encyclopedia of the Baltic Sea Fishes, compiled in the same location by Professor Polyanski, winner of the Nobel Prize. This work is very important for Roman. He would have accomplished his task, but once he swam too far in the sea. It was then that Helena came into his life, to change his ideas about the world forever.
How did it happen that the wife of a candidate for governor, a provincial Russian nobleman and a big admirer of beauty, put the wrong ballet, or Swan Lake, for his election ?! Why did she get locals, old people, marginals and freaks, and not professionals of the right proportions? The former teacher with his freedom-loving thoughts is to blame. After all, old love does not rust, and flowers bloom on the asphalt.
Veta has an indifferent husband and blond friend Lisa. When Veta becomes depressed, Lisa pulls her "to the bottom." What Veta only thinks about, Lisa is already doing.
The project of Olga Zhirova and Julia Vorobieva
Also Directed by Lika Yatkovskaya
Two heroines: Lyuba (Love) and Vera (Faith); one is 26, the other 40 years old. They met at drawing classes. For Vera the meeting is accidental, for Lyuba it is necessary. The love for the same man begins their short friendship.