Saint Petersburg School New Cinema

A minivan rides through the evening city. From it in turn in different places passengers leave. Nothing is known about them, except that they are going to arrange a series of simultaneous terrorist attacks.

A woman is waiting for a man from prison. He comes back to others.

Misha, 14 years old. His father, whom he rarely sees. Misha’s dream of happy families living somewhere in the world out there.

Dima and Katya are spending a summer day together outside the city: swimming in a pond, sunbathing, making love, and sharing dreams from the night before. They are young, carefree, and in love, but beneath the mask of joy lies a quiet sadness. The day will soon end, and they will have to part, and neither of them knows how long this separation will last.

There is a rhythm in the nursing home: routine rounds, meals, endless lotto games and watching TV. The days of the nurse are sluggish and monotonous, he is indifferent to work and indifferent to others, almost all of his actions are already on the machine. But suddenly one random event pulls him out of his usual state.

He is jealous of her because his friend has invited her to the rehearsal of his group. She has not chosen anybody, but it seems they have done this for her.

Marina has been doing gymnastics for over 15 years. She is the oldest (read, old) gymnast of the Pearl Olympic Reserve School. She would be happy to finish her career long ago and live a normal life: to study, to have a hobby, and in the end - to love. But by the will of the coach (or fate?), She did not go to the competitions, which she aspired to all her career. Therefore, she is forced to stay in sports for another two years at the age of 20 in order to wait for the next chance, and her coach, “Lena,” is forced to undergo endless trials, because that same Marina’s prison is the life of Elena Anatolyevna.

Nina lives with a seriously ill father and works on the psychological helpline. She has a little time between visits of doctors and conversations with unstable teens to watch the boys who are chasing the ball in the yard. Their liveliness is the complete opposite of her routine existence. She tries to escape from the darkness with the help of one of them.

Alyoshin is a pupil at a correctional orphanage. To confirm his legal capacity and to get out, he goes on an internship in a bakery. There, he falls in love with a co-worker and pretends that they are having an affair.

If you don't talk to your heart for a long time, one day it will talk to you by itself.

Vera is looking for her sister, from whom there has been no news for several weeks. Vera and her husband Peter break down the door to her apartment to make sure that the girl has been missing there for a long time. A woman in despair turns to the police, where they understand that it is almost impossible to find her sister alive. Vera is not sure that she will be able to make an identification, then her husband, who has his own personal interests in this case, is called to do it…

Video essay in the found footage technique. The film is built on a visual metaphor, it uses an ironic juxtaposition that tells about the strange force that makes humanity at all times, as if by itself, line up in even rows and arrange itself.

Sasha fights for his classmate's girlfriend. His sister Marina works as a teacher in the daytime and dances on the raves at nights. Their existence in modern Russia seems to be a trap.

In 2020, a space program was launched to study time loops. Two sisters took part in the mission. For them, it was not just a scientific expedition, but an opportunity to return to familiar, but long-forgotten landscapes.

Life in the stable is subject to the strict order established by its owner. The daughter, the only person close to him, refuses to play by his rules.