Moscow School of New Cinema

А husband and wife are waiting for their daughter to go to a family dinner, but she is not answering her phone. They go looking for her.

A female photographer is on the look out for new material in an unspecified town. She meets far eastern employees who agree to do an interview and a photo-shoot. This shooting session alters the way she sees things and changes the fate of one of the employees.

In a final attempt to find the truth behind his beloved cousin's death, Jafar decides to face the person who is likely to tell him all. But the cost of it might be too high.

A man is accidentally endowed with superpowers. His only desire? For life to go back to normal. He doesn't want to be a superhero, but he can't help it.

At first glance she is just an ordinary woman, but every couple of months her normal life comes to a halt. Unbeknownst to her loved ones, she goes on a long journey. She jumps from one type of transportation to another, carefully covering up her tracks and building a web of lies during her phone conversations. What is on her mind and what is the purpose of this journey?

A day in the life of a lonely Lezgi boy in a remote village in the mountains of northern Azerbaijan. All he has is his only friend and a football to keep him going in a village that has no future to offer him. The film is made in Lezgi language with some bits in Azeri.

The lonely Alyona nurses her mother, who has lost her speech and mind to Alzheimer's. The daughter works from home and watches travel TV shows. One day, Alyona invites a man over, but her mother scuttles the date. On the same occasion, the daughter gets a opportunity to entirely change her life.

A meeting on a train between completely different and unfamiliar people suddenly introduces them to themselves, revealing old wounds and tormenting questions. Why are they meeting? It's up to them, and perhaps to those watching them through the screen.

Anna is a common office girl in a relationship with her married chief. One day Anna meets another man but what will it take her to escape from the iterative life cycle?

This is the story of one day in the life of a Georgian family. A fisherman's family celebrates Christmas day.

A ten-year-old boy's world is turned upside-down when his father is forced to shelter a runaway criminal in the family cafe that doubles as their home.

She is 40, he is 30. She is trying to adopt a child. He recently got out of prison and wants to start a new life. They accidentally meet on the day when he gets a job, and spend the whole night together, drink and eat at her expense. It requires understanding and intimacy. He wants peace.

A patient dies in a small remote hospital under questionable circumstances. The police arrive at the scene to start the investigation. They look for night duty doctor Nino for an interrogation since she was in charge of supervising the deceased woman. The investigation makes it clear that the death of the patient may not be an accident, but the police have no sufficient evidence to prove the murder.

In the vacuum space, a clash of opposing social groups occurs: intellectuals and criminal elements. This leads to a catastrophe and entails a change in social roles - the persecuted become persecutors, the executioner turns into a victim.

Masha and Valya, vegetarians and abstainers, invite their former friends Natasha and Sergey over. Natasha and Sergey took a mortgage, they are planning a child. Natasha tries to persuade Masha to throw a wedding party, nevertheless she hints at Valya being no good for Masha. Masha in reply tells Natasha that her husband Sergey drinks vodka on the quite. Natasha makes a scene to Sergey. Masha tries to reconcile friends and convince them of their relationship being cracked. The guests are leaving. Valya blames Masha for climbing out of her business. Masha and Valya have a quarrel. Masha remains alone.

For the first time in her life Virineya is an ethnic Moksha woman who grew up in Moscow, meets Vasily, a man of her own nationality. She is an aspiring model who appears in cheap advertisements, he works at a garbage processing facility. On her days-off she likes to have a glass of cold beer, he enjoys playing tennis. They are very different, but they have a common land of their ancestors, where they have never been, as well as the endangered language of their people, which they speak but poorly…

At ends of the earth in a forgotten village, where time has stood still, a bird, that noone can see, is singing songs. Marika and Baka are lost in their feelings whereas a sheep thief has appeared in an abandoned house.

Zhu is Chinese. She recently came to Russia to learn Russian and gain admission to a university. Every day, she attends language courses for foreigners. She spends most of her time alone. Out of boredom and a longing to ease her melancholy, Zhu decides to go on a date with a stranger.

A young guy from the Moscow suburbs can't handle his own life: a huge gap between him and his mother, agressive relations with his stepfather, street fights and serious health issues. But the biggest surprise will appear to be himself.