VGIK

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.

Veta is a student of the acting department of one of the capital's universities. She does not show great promise, but she firmly believes in her dream - to become the best in her field.

Ahmed’s father has only a day with his wife and son before he must return to war. With haunting, innocent cruelty, the children play games that mirror the adult world, leading them to discover the harshness of destiny

Gelya is enjoying being young. Her elder sister Kristina is expecting a second child at the age of just 17, and people are predicting the same fate for 14-year-old Gelya. After going out for a walk with a boy who is besotted with her, she ends up getting drunk on strawberry beer and sitting on his lap while weeping over her own unrequited love. Gelya then returns home, just as her sister is discharged from the maternity hospital.

What did a man do when he first saw a woman? He knocked out her teeth. This is a story about the thirst for love and the impossibility of intimacy, about tenderness and violence.

Alina, a theater student, has difficulty studying, loses feelings for her boyfriend and takes antipsychotics. In order to finally understand herself, she goes through the entire hierarchy of help: a psychotherapist, a fortune teller, and even disappearance from the face of the earth. But when Alina sinks to the very bottom, she suddenly finds a way out of the situation.

A portrait of people who live on the margins of life and exist outside normal society.

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

1990s. Three friends Vova, Mamed and Lyokha go to school and dream, like everyone else in Russia at this time, to open their own business. But first you need money. Everything seemed to be going well, but they were not allowed to the final exams. His Majesty the case in the image of the regional semi-criminal authority Kostik comes to the aid of aspiring entrepreneurs. Kostya's liver has rotted - he needs a new one. Young businessmen get the coveted organ, but only with it, with this organ, it is not so simple.

Zamira's life, already stingy with small joys, is about to be turned upside down. Her husband believes that it is time for the family to leave their familiar place. Faced with a fact, the woman will have to part with her familiar way of life, the center of which was a cow. The closeness between the animal and the man, squeezed in the vice of strong traditions, is about to shrink to the last shred. This means that Zamira will cling to it with a despair unexpected for herself.

Rudolf, a German traveling in Central Asia, comes to a small village in Kazakhstan. His arrival changes the young woman Karlygash (the name translates from Kazakh as "swallow"), and a mutual interest arises between the young people.

An old teacher suffers from loneliness and insomnia. Long days are passing by, and there is no one who could support and help him. Incidentally, in an online advert of a brothel, he sees a girl's face, that makes his heart beat faster... A lost young woman and a lonely old man meet to change the course of their difficult destinies forever...

The young Vera arranges a romantic date for her mother, Natalia Petrovna, with the capital’s lady’s man so she will find her femininity again. But things go not quite according to plan...

Food delivery courier A1733 starts a normal day on his old bike. But Shia Labouf unexpectedly appears on his way, who turns this day into an extraordinary adventure.

1945. The War has ended. Alyosha is coming home, expecting tenderness and kindness of his beloved wife, Lyba, and his children. But many things have changed. Except one - his wife still extremely loves him. But would he accept that love? Based on a A. Platonov novel.

About an actress who does not play, but through a documentary film tries to dot the rest of her life.

Lesha lives in Moscow. Everything is normal with Lesha. He is a typical "hero of our time." But there is something that does not give him rest. And there is a person who will change his life when Lesha is still only 23, ahead of him has a whole life, and behind him is childhood.

Love is blind. In the literal and figurative sense. A middle-aged man falls in love with a young girl and loses his head. As a result of an accident the man becomes completely blind. After surgery, they rent a summer house at the countryside to relax. The girl becomes his only companion and guide in this new strange blind world. But the man feels that there is someone else in the house.