Marina Vasilyeva
Reflections of the shift worker Ivan, who, due to life circumstances, overcomes more than 9000 km to return home. On his way he meets many interesting people: military, students, mothers with children, men, women, old people. The landscapes outside the window, time zones, people are changing. But their stories remain, stories about life, love, hope and faith.
Alienated in politically-ambiguous Moscow, young woman deals with severe OCD, while her cousin in Berlin tries to build a romantic relationship ignoring her own condition. In a parallel New York City realm, a heartbroken boxer struggles with addiction, self worth and online anxiety, which connects all the heroes from a universal level.
Artem Chagin, one of the countless "conquerors" of Moscow, receives news of the death of his father, who left them with his mother when Artem was still a child. The death of his father does not touch Artem, but wanting to solve material issues by selling the house left by his father, he goes to his small homeland in the city of Sovetsk. There, he unexpectedly meets his father's new family - his wife and six-year-old son, who are backed by a strong Uzbek Diaspora. Trying to solve the problem with the sale of the house, Chagin calls on a local bandit, an old friend of his father, to fight the Diaspora. The conflict is growing like a snowball, turning into a violent confrontation. At the center of all this is Artem, who has lost control of what is happening, and an unhappy widow who just wants to bury her husband.
19th century. A big misfortune happened on the land of one wealthy family of Yakutia. People left this land in a rush and no one settled here for centuries… As time passed, fear was forgotten and farmers started settling here again. But ghosts of this land were waiting for this moment and one horrible night revealed secrets of forgotten history. Life of this people will change forever…
Once robbers break into the measured and happy life of an architect and his wife. Now Andrey's only dream is to erase that nightmare from Olya's memory. Desperate searches for a solution lead him to an eerie apartment in the House on the Embankment to the mysterious Mara, who promises a "special" medicine.
The shift worker Ivan covers more than 9000 km by train. Landscapes, time zones, people are changing. But their stories of life, love, hope and faith remain.
Five unusual short stories in the almanac from Russian directors. Horror about the mystical school from Alexander Domogarov, Jr. (“Let the children go”). Erotic thriller "Ear Ring" with Lukerya Ilyashenko. Black comedy about the forest walk of two friends "Mushrooms and fish." Witty kinonovella "Che" on a spontaneous trip to St. Petersburg. The post-New Year story with Olga Sutulova and Marina Vasilyeva about finding the missing guy named Kostik.
Lena is a talented midwife and gynaecologist, her husband Serezha is an actor at a provincial drama theatre. They are close and gentle with each other, but there is no sex. Lena suspects that Serezha has an affair, but she worries quietly and does not reveal her jealousy. Instead of sorting out her relationship with her husband, Lena starts to betray him with chance acquaintances. Gradually Lena’s parallel life gets out of control and changes her original life.
Experienced Moscow police officer Maksim Pokrovskiy is sent to Northern Russia to investigate the murder of the local Oligarch's daughter.
“The Interview” tells the story of Sonya, who grew up with her mum. Sonya enrols in the faculty of journalism in Moscow. Once she decides to meet her father, whom never saw, and take an interview with him under the guise of a journalist so she would get answers to the questions that have long troubled her
Heroes call a taxi to throw out the accumulated. The new mobile psychologist service is gaining popularity as the feeling of loneliness, longing and meaninglessness of life grows with the passengers of the future. With this set, “patients” sit in the car to the silent driver, one of whom confesses: “Sometimes I feel like a robot. But not more often than ordinary people. ”
On New Year's Eve, a young guy named Kostik disappears. His search is engaged in warring with each other mother and ex-girlfriend. Mom thinks the girl is to blame for what happened. She forces the girl to participate in all search operations. They put up orientations, look at the corpses in the morgue, sweep through the forest, get into the police. Love for Kostik will push women to desperate acts.
Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears...
A practical joke ends up very wrong in Nigina Sayfullaevas curious youth drama. Two seventeen year old Moscow girls, Olya and Sasha, are visiting Olya's long lost father who lives in Crimea, when they decide to switch places and pretend to be the other person to the father. Little do they know that their joke comes with consequenses that will change their lives forever.
Student residence, between 1980 and 90 years. It would seem that ordinary everyday life of young students: youthful maximalism, love and quarrels, war with the commandant, friendship and fun. But one of the young people living in her commits suicide. Soon everyone will find out that going beyond the walls of a hostel is tantamount to jumping into the abyss.
Architect Andrey comes to a hypnotist girl at the House on the Embankment with a request to take the memory of his wife Olya about how thieves attacked them in a country house, and Andrei fled to call for help. Under the terms of the deal, Olya and Andrey move to the House on the embankment in the hypnotist’s apartment, where Olya will forget everything. At first, everything develops and Olya gradually forgets about the attack. But soon the nightmares of the apartment itself and what is hidden in the only locked room begin to torment her.
