VGIK

A long time ago, Prometheus was cursed by the God's for bringing fire to mankind. Today, Fedor finds himself in Moscow for the first time and falls in love with Masha.

Based on I. Bunin's "Rusya".

Carved to the beat verses of Allen Ginsberg and his eponymous poem, A Supermarket in California paints the most surreal contours of an America watched, dreamed, filtered through the eyes of a poet who meets Walt Whitman in a supermarket and pines for a world that may not exist.

6 minutes, 23 seconds from life of an actor

A young photographer wanders the city taking pictures with a Polaroid 600, but on each print the silhouette of a woman on a bicycle appears. The sequence of photos makes it clear that the woman is about to be hit by a trolleybus. Based loosely on Stephen King's novella "The Sun Dog" and Julio Cortázar's short story "Blow-Up" ("Las babas del diablo").

An anthology of five stories that can literally happen to anyone.

"This is a video for my generation. I'm Lucia Izmailova. And I can control time. See the future. I was eight years old when I dreamt of World War III. Even though my parents didn't believe me, I still love them very much. Their wedding anniversary is soon. And I'm preparing a surprise for them. Mom will cook a lot of tasty food. Dad, like always, will sing... And I will dance. They will see that I can..."

About the young, nice guy on a good typewriter. He is not a fool and with a sense of humor. He is generally all good - know the problems. But for some reason he does not love anyone, but I want to ... love.

The life of fifteen-year-old Sasha Kuznetsov seems ordinary: school, friends, tests. But behind simple conversations with his mother lies pain that they both try not to name out loud.

Moscow, 1996. Young and enterprising banker Andrei Rubanov has a wife Irma and a small child. And more than a million dollars between them with his friend Misha. Seeing themselves as the future elite of the new state, oligarchs, they sign up for a major deal, but it turns out that the friends were drawn into a large-scale scam to steal billions from the treasury. After his arrest, Andrei ends up in an overcrowded common cell at Matrosskaya Tishina, a purgatory where he must become a different person in order to survive and return to the familiar world.

Prima ballerina is preparing for the premier, but because of the jealousy of her husband, a choreographer, find herself involved in a violent clash with the troupe.

A group of six young Russian boys at a summer camp tell each other scary stories while waiting to fall asleep one night.

Uzbek citizen Yury Derbenev is sent to work in Moscow to raise money for the treatment of a seriously ill daughter. His profession, however, is inappropriate: Yury Alexeevich is a teacher of Russian language and literature. And by nationality he is Russian. After many ordeals and misfortunes into which the capital plunged him, Yury is faced with a choice: to go to kill and save his own daughter or remain an honest person.

Viktor spends his free time trawling bars with ladies of questionable repute, from where he is picked up by a wife he doesn’t love, the mother of a child they never planned. Viktor himself was abandoned by his own father, his mother then committed suicide, and he was left to grow up in an orphanage. Years later, his errant dad returns, now a disabled felon, and Viktor discovers a timely legacy is in the offing – his father’s apartment. The documentation for securing dad’s move into an old people’s home is signed in a flash. Nevertheless, the only one that can take him is miles away and, what’s more, the invalid starts to recuperate during the journey, which is when their real problems begin.

Polina lives and works in a small hotel in the northern border town. She and her friend Nadia dream of a different, paradise and exotic world. The girls almost never leave the empty immobilized hotel and live, performing their strange daily rituals in the hope that someday they will lead them to a miracle. Once a stranger arrives at the hotel.

Office clerk Maxim witnesses a car accident. The affected girl is experiencing clinical death, which lasted 4 minutes. After her “return”, Maxim’s life changes dramatically: all his dreams are realized with the help of a girl’s mysterious gift. How far will Maxim lead his desires?

Lena was betrayed by her lover when he sold her abroad to a brothel. She miraculously managed to escape, and comes back for revenge.

One day in the life of the courier girl

Based on Vasil Bykov’s story of the same name. During the Second World War a Soviet prisoner of war returns home, but everybody treats him with suspicion. In the course of the questioning it becomes clear that his story differs from what the words of the woman, whom he calls his wife. Only a face-to-face confrontation can unearth the truth.