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This is a story about an elderly woman, Nina Andreevna Cherkasskaya. She has devoted her whole life to training dogs in the circus and has been living alone for many years. On the eve of the anniversary, Nina comes to the city to perform at a creative evening. On the day of the performance, it turns out that her name is not on the guest list.
Nov 2021
An innocuous trip out into nature could end in tragedy. While the parents argue about approaches to raising children, their child is left unattended and gets into unexpected and even dangerous situations.
Oct 2015
Asya is a successful police officer who deals with juvenile cases. The measured rhythm of her life is disrupted when, after many years, her flighty, eternally young 50-year-old mother Nadya suddenly reappears. She tries to restore her relationship with her daughter, but warm memories are quickly replaced by old grievances. Nadya has not changed…
Oct 2017
Experimental film about Mayakovsky without Mayakovsky.
Nov 2018
The remote, abandoned, snow-swept Belarusian village of Lute. The last resident of this village, Valentina Kirillovna Shpakova, is celebrating the New Year.
Dec 2010
Brother and son, it was only yesterday that he came back from the army. Only his sister is at home, his mother is wandering somewhere as usual. But the man, who has come back, has changed completely.
Apr 2021
The Filippov family live in the north of Russia, far from civilisation. Despite the lack of modern conveniences, they live in harmony with nature, create art, support and understand each other like no other people in this world.
Jan 2017
An ordinary exam in literature suddenly turns into a clash of two life positions.
Jul 2022
Gosha (nicknamed Kukuruza) comes to the casting to try out for the role of a failed robber. Not the smoothest auditions are mixed with memories of today and the film in which Gosha wants to star. A prostitute, a dead Batman, shooting, a chase, a robbery. Where does reality end and fiction begin? And is there much of a difference between them?
Jun 2026
Oct 2022
Petya’s dream is to become a tram driver, and the boy has explored every corner of the tram depot located near his house. The lad is well acquainted with the “residents” of the depot: the old trams, which long ago served out their term and are now laid up forever in its furthest, emptiest reaches. One day Petya decides to show his classmate Katya his secret place, and the excursion turns into an adventure.
Jul 2014
This story tells us about a 30 years old guy who still lives with his mother. Their relations are quite tough but she feels so lonely that she just can’t let him go. He suffers a lot but one day he gets the job offer on the North...
Nov 2017
Ordinary girl Sonia works as a nurse in the psychiatric ward of the hospital and dreams of becoming a doctor. She treats patients well and her boss - the head of the department. But everything changes when the manager trusts Sonia "responsible job".
Sep 2011
In the queue at the dentist's office, Katya meets two boys: Lyokha, a neighborhood hooligan, and Kirill, a pedantic "mama's boy." Each of them tries their own way to attract the girl's attention and distract her from her anxiety about the doctor.
Jan 2020
During the Soviet-Afghan War, in the days when general secretary of the Communist Party Leonid Breznev, in a military hospital a young lieutenant wounded almost to death meets a young military nurse, tired almost to death. One meeting. One night. One candle. A short from Vladimir Koptsev, Alexander Sokurov’s pupil.
Nov 2020
After a fall on a ski run in Sochi a young skier tries to conquer it once more at the Winter Olympics. However, this is not a simple challenge: fear turns out to be devastating for the athlete, and only the support of his mother helps him to regain belief in himself.
Jun 2014
Niso leaves Tajikistan and comes to Russia to find the father who abandoned her as a child. Having lost the meaning of life, Niso hopes to find it again after meeting her father, but the path she has chosen is full of unexpected turns and will force her to face her fears.
Sep 2023
“How strange this love is: Immense for the mind of a human, And thus, it has to nestle in a heart, or – Flutter right above one’s head”.
Oct 2023
A young girl Sasha is released from prison. Her father meets her and takes to the village where she spent her childhood.
In various states and forms (liquid, vapour, ice; raw and refined stone), the elements of this union aim to evoke, with a near-tactile chill on the skin, a multifaceted St. Petersburg: austere and enigmatic, monolithic yet secretive. Water and stone—two opposing forces—merge through human will, not to destroy one another but to create something marvellous. At a certain point, the boundary between ice and granite dissolves: ancient ammonites, once dwellers of the seas, turn to stone; the river’s icy veneer cracks like an old embankment. Out of mist or blizzard, Petrograd emerges before us.
Apr 2025