Anastasiya Kasilova

Maksim, an investing manager, is too busy reading the news in his social network feeds fails to notice his own problems, until the news really start to influence his own life.

Ukraine, goodbye! - Ukrainian film Almanac — a collection of short films about the acute social problem of Ukraine-emigration abroad. The collection includes 25 short films in Ukrainian or Russian.

After years of estrangement, single parent Arkadiy gets a visit from brother Igor and his son from Odesa. According to Jewish custom, they mourn their recently deceased mother while digging up old conflicts. As the war breaks out in Ukraine, the family is thrown into turmoil, and the brothers must take a closer look at their relationship to their homeland.

An adaptation of Hemingway's story "White Elephants". The action takes place on a godforsaken old train station in the middle of beautiful Ukrainian mountains. We are witnessing the most difficult conversation in the lives of a man and a woman who are trying to justify their difficult decision and attempting to save the relationship.

Young woman’s husband died tragically. From possible kinds of burial she chooses cremation. The woman is late for a funeral… One of the crematorium workers has already received her husband ashes and is grinding them in a crusher. Then he carefully puts the package into the urn and sifts ashes there. But not all of them. He leaves a handful and sifts it into the rolling bin prepared beforehand... When the bin is full, the crematorium worker takes it home ... At his balcony, he grows tomatoes which need fertilizer. When the crematorium worker sells them, he assures customers that his product is ecologically clean.

It seemed that Lyudmila Krylovа had a bright and happy future ahead of her. But suddenly, fate turns its back on her. In a single day, her fiancé runs away just before the wedding, the head of the chemistry lab takes credit for her scientific achievement, and her cherished dream — a trip to Venice — is shattered. Mila is left alone and without a job.

You can walk away from a war, but it will forever leave an imprint on your life. The main characters return to their previously familiar lives - work, family and children. But they are broken - the war has broken them.

Asya and Gennady’s happy family is shattered overnight when their five-year-old son, Antoshka, dies in a devastating fire. The tragedy robs Asya of any sense of purpose. A deep depression leads to divorce and a self-destructive spiral. Asya wants to take her own life. But a year after her son’s death, hope suddenly appears. She meets a firefighter, Nikolai, who tells her that no remains of her son were found in the ashes. Asya clings desperately to this fragile hope—she wants to believe Antoshka is alive. But if so, where is her boy? No one but Asya believes it. Only Nikolai reaches out to help the despairing woman.

In the 1st season of the series "Probationary Love", the 35-year-old widower spends a lot of time in the apiary, which feeds his family. Because of this, eight-year-old Lucy and four-year-old Petya are completely abandoned. The guardianship authorities threaten to take the babies away. In order not to send the children to a boarding school, Pavel publishes an ad in the newspaper that he is looking for a wife who wants to help him with the kids. So the librarian Natalia appears in the man's house. The main character still has not recovered from the death of his wife and hardly accepts another woman in the house. The children are jealous of Natasha's father. It is difficult for a woman to be in this tense atmosphere.