Moscow School of New Cinema

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.

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?

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?

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.

People go to work 5/2, have dinner and watch TV in the evening, stare at their phones before bed, quickly get ready in the morning and go to work. And again. And again. Again.

Petya moves into a spare room belonging to a strange family. Gradually, his familiar routine is disrupted.

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.

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.

For the last 22 years, Viktor Stepanov has lived deep in the forest, five kilometres from the nearest village. His home is a canopy of dense fabric in several layers, an iron stove and an earthen floor. Thoughts about nature and man’s place in the biosphere have accompanied Viktor all his life. He says that after nine months living in the forest you are left “naked”: one-on-one with yourself. At times there is nowhere to hide from melancholy, but the hermit draws strength from his unbreakable bond with the natural environment.

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. lives with her boyfriend and cat, working as a social assistant. Day after day, she helps those who find themselves on the sidelines of life, not noticing the fact that she herself needs help and love.

The desire to get her daughter back becomes the driving force in the way of the lead female character as she makes desperate attempts to rebuild their lives upon the release from yet another drug rehab.

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…

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.

Lonely young seamstress Masha rents an apartment from widower Valery, who recently lost his beloved wife. Unable to come to terms with the loss, Valery visits Masha almost every day, which prevents her from improving her personal life.

Today is Masha's birthday. She finally decides to meet her father, whom she has never seen. It is separated from him by only one door. She hears a childish voice for her and does not dare to call. She can't take the last step.

Ann, an actress, comes to an audition for a role in a movie directed by the man she thinks she's in love with. Overwhelmed with emotions, she fails the audition, but manages to convince the director to go out for a walk, which then transforms his day into a pleasant evening spent in her company. The desire for love shared by the two single souls jump starts the clockworks of a miracle, which for some reason fails to develop. A classical tale of how everything that transpires with a girl happens mostly inside her head.

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.

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.

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.