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The boy wants to have a pigeon, but he can't afford to buy a bird. On the market for a pigeon asking for 100 rubles! Then he decides to buy a bird, bartering it for his father's album with stamps. Having caught a pigeon, the boy releases a bird into the sky. But the pigeon is returning to it's native dovecote, to it's former owner, who again demands money for it. This is a short movie about childhood and dreams, about the first life lessons that everyone has to face in childhood, when society and its laws bring changes into life, sometimes breaking the brightest dreams.

The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. The film is based on the short story "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1927. It was Tarkovsky's first film, produced when he was a student at the State Institute of Cinematography.

A short movie and university exercise filmed in 1981.

The small town is asleep. Only the young wife of the elderly pharmacist Chernomordik, the owner of the pharmacy, is awake. She has already gone to bed three times, but sleep stubbornly refuses to come to her. Suddenly, footsteps can be heard in the silence of the night. A short while later, two figures in white officer's tunics appear outside the window: one is large and fat, while the other is smaller and thinner. A moment later, a bell rings in the pharmacy, and the worried pharmacist opens the door to the officers. The young officer, Obtesov, orders 15 kopecks worth of mint cakes. Meanwhile, the more experienced doctor strikes up a casual conversation. Soon, a bottle of wine appears on the table, and the young pharmacist agrees to have a sip...

The story is about a nasty boy who blackmails his older sister and the young man who is in love with her.

A film adaptation of Chekhov's short story of the same name. A forty-year-old man and a young woman meet in a roadside inn. They get to know each other and wait out the blizzard raging outside the window.

A fairy tale-parable on the theme "the artist and the civil war". The photographer and the boy, carried away by one work, the other by posing, are captured. First to the Reds, then to the anarchists.

The film invites its viewers to reflect on where modern sports have come to. Does a young, honest and uncompromising athlete have a future in the sport or must he go along with the dishonest tricks and the mean game that comes from it all?

A short diploma film based on a fairy tale by Yemelian Bukov and directed by Sergei Parajanov. The film was made in 1952, since that moment it was considered to be lost, but finally it was found in VGIK in 2025.

A simple story about two lonely, middle-aged people.

Aquarium Fish of This World is the story of the relationship between the captain and the boatswain, temporarily written off ashore, with a young guy who dreams of becoming a cabin boy.