Daniela Stojanovic
They have been abandoned in a world adorned with concepts such as family, friendship, love, and opportunities. In search of answers to their questions, they devour themselves like a chemical substance that corrodes the world around, in order to eventually learn not to listen but to hear, not to look but to see. And to find their way.
Ivan, a successful oncologist who has created a cure for cancer, discovers suddenly that by an ironical twist of fate he is terminally ill. He realizes that he has one chance to correct the mistake he made a long time ago, and leaves his family to go to another city to the woman he loved all his life, hoping to spend the last night with her...
Following a brawl, Captain Ignat, who is traumatised by the death of his daughter, is ordered together with a regular soldier to find a deserter and bring him back via Moscow to stand before a military court. Although they locate the young soldier, their journey across the wintry moloch that is Moscow is slow and tortuous. Before long, the unlikely trio find themselves drawn into a chaotic maelstrom of violence, corruption, criminality, degradation and squalidness. In the face of the monstrous malaise and everyday horror of life in Russia, the gradual breakdown of the film’s anti-hero becomes a metaphor for Russian society.
A young girl Kseniya becomes a nurse in the Russian Army during the WWI.
A young doctor relocates to a remote region of central Asia, thinking his fiancee soon will join him ...
The film is based on a true story. Arthur, a former military doctor, leads the quiet life of a widower in a mountain village in Dagestan. Arthur learns that his only daughter Maryam has been recruited by a terrorist organization and ran away to Syria. Desperate, Arthur goes after her. The father is willing to do anything it takes to save his daughter. When do your loved ones become strangers? Can a loving father be faced with a choice: saving his own daughter or somebody else’s?
