Igor Volchek

Yura had a bad day on his birthday: he got a bad grade. And the adults around him were saying some strange things: “You’re driving me crazy! Stop being lazy! Get this into your head!” Yura and his friend Katya are trying to figure out where these mysterious expressions, called phraseological units, come from.

Including six short animated films, each directed by a separate filmmaker.

These are parables about personal freedom and the strangeness of family relationships.

Little heroes Yura and Katya, thanks to a magical gift from Yura's grandmother, find themselves in an extraordinary land of knowledge where there are no boundaries. In this land, you can travel anywhere and learn a lot. The children decide to learn about the oceans. Together with their all-knowing assistant, the heroes set off on a journey across four oceans: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and North.

A clumsy bear in a beautiful forest sought a friend, but found it challenging due to the forest’s mixed intentions.

The life and death of Robert Moussombe, the leader of an unnamed African state. Moussombe is a fictionalized portrait of assassinated Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, and the film's events are a pastiche of the Congo Crisis in 1960s.

A thunderstorm. A prison guard runs from prison in the rain, taking shelter from the storm in an antique shop. A gendarme's whistle, an explosion—an assassination attempt on the Tsar. Kibalchich's house is searched. He is obsessed with the idea of ​​creating a jet engine, which he even sees in the tip of the Minister of Internal Affairs' cigar. The Peter and Paul Fortress brings Kibalchich and the guard together. Memories unfold to the accompaniment of a waltz—the park, the unveiling of a monument, the mint. A walk before the execution, an empty cell. The overseer tries to fly, but a whip cuts his dream short. And Kibalchich's dream bursts out of the Peter and Paul Fortress, filling the entire screen with a rocket.

Including three satirical and abstract mini‑plots: “Suk,” “Mozart and…,” and “The Last Hunt.”