Efim Reznikov

Vera is a troubled teenager fresh out of school feeling trapped in her provincial port town during the turbulent times of perestroika. Her days and nights are filled with drinking, sex, and family dysfunction.

Fifteen years old Boris hates his life and is ready for everything to just leave his small Siberian town.

Choreographic school, young talents are collected here. Behind eight years of study - three months remain before the final performance. And finally, “Giselle” is appointed, roles are distributed, girls are worried - they are afraid of the wording “professionally unsuitable”, but Yulya’s thoughts are different. She fell in love for the first time. And she has to choose between her beloved and the stage.

"Oh, ballet, how I hate you!" - the film begins here and ends with burning confession of love for ballet. They say that to go from hatred to love takes just one step. In fact - thousands of daily steps. And 52 minutes of film.

A documentary film looking at the lives of two women who have turned their back on having children or husbands. The one because she has entered into a convent, and the other because of her career as a bodyguard.

A film about the history of Galileo Galilei's relationship with Pope Urban VIII and about the fate of his treatise "Dialogues about the two most important systems of the World - Ptolemaic and Copernican"

A documentary about the work of the outstanding American modern dance choreographer Bill T. Jones with Natalia Balakhnicheva, leading ballerina of the Kremlin Ballet Theater.

Icon restorer Begun lost everything — his wife, his son, and his beloved profession. And after getting involved in smuggling a batch of stolen icons abroad, he ended up owing a large sum of money to the bigwigs of the criminal underworld. He was given a condition: to find and bring to Moscow the miraculous icon “Siberian Savior,” which had been left in one of the villages lost in the remote Siberian taiga a hundred years ago.

In this farcical dark comedy/melodrama, Lena manages to lose her place at college by virtue of throwing a minor hissy-fit when she catches her erstwhile boyfriend in bed with another girl. Instead of penalizing the boy for his behavior, Lena gets stuck with a court appearance and must pay a small fine, in addition to losing a boyfriend, her college career, and an apartment. Lena belongs to a film club which occasionally hands out awards, and the membership of it decides to send her into the Russian hinterlands to hand out an award to an obscure filmmaker. Throughout the film, Lena has been associated with a bizarre con man named Stepanych who, when his cons fall through, comes to her in the distant town she has gone to seeking her help in committing suicide.