Dmitry Davydov

A heinous crime is committed in a small remote Russian village. Police officer Afonya is a prime suspect. The locals are ready to take matters into their own hands. Investigator Sirditov faces a difficult task: he must find out all of the facts of this case before the villagers decide to execute their own justice. This Yakuti film was made in the Republic of Sakha.

A young woman lives with her husband in a small apartment, a convenient refuge from external problems—the pandemic and social upheavals. When her husband goes away on a business trip, she, having not set foot in the house for a month, begins to experience strange things. Objects disappear from under her hands, a window opens by itself, or soil appears in the apartment. She is plagued by bad dreams and visions of her late mother.

After moving to a new house, the hero meets an unknown girl-neighbor and immediately becomes a witness of inexplicable events. Trying to understand the mystical events, the hero enters into a confrontation with the girl's father, who keeps a shocking secret.

In a Yakut village, one opposite the other, two single-parent families live, without mothers. The timid and unrequited Ivan is constantly humiliated by his neighbor, the impudent and self-confident Tikhon. After Tikhon beats Ivan in front of his son, the teenager becomes disillusioned with his father and begins to spend more and more time with his offender.

Defying his father's wish to pass on the family reindeer-herding business, a young Evenk decides to leave for the city to work—a choice that becomes a personal tragedy for the herder.

A teacher at a Yakut music school must make a choice between a sacred song from the dark past and love that heralds a bright future.

Father and daughter are fitting out their house away from civilization. Shots are heard in the forest and the father is surprised to learn that his daughter has killed an unexpected animal for dinner. Since this moment, he realizes trouble is close.

Seven stories about good and evil neighbours. A young son takes his father's gun without asking and lends it to a friend. A young man brings his bride to his home, but the meeting with his relatives turns into a dangerous conflict and only the village head can prevent a tragedy. The head of a young family sells the house of a relative and accidentally loses money because of this. His relationship with his wife begins to deteriorate. Will they be able to keep the family together? All the characters will have to make a difficult choice… A crazy anthology consisting of seven funny, dramatic and complex stories about the relationships of families, neighbours, relatives, and friends.

She is a healer. A hermit. A Fool-in-God. She is a little over forty years old. She doesn’t disdain alcohol. She can be ridiculous, humiliated, offended. She has long been indifferent about herself. Everybody avoids her and is afraid of her, but secretly at night they all hurry to her home. After all, only she can get rid of their illnesses. For her, this is a damnation, and each time she swears that she won’t help people any more, but each time she is unable to refuse them. She knows that her gift will ruin her some time, but she continues to be the only chance of salvation for people.

Two Yakutian fathers who lost their sons become locked in a tormenting cycle of revenge against a pristine snowy landscape.

A documentary road movie. Traveling across his homeland, the filmmaker explores what Yakut cinema is, and what it means to the Sakha people and to himself.

Short film by Dmitry Davydov

He is forty years old. He left his wife and children in order to care for his mother, who is under seventy. She has Alzheimer's disease. She begins to forget who she is, and ceases to recognize her son. The hero has one goal in life - by all means keep her mother’s memory of herself. He takes her from village to town to start a new life with her.

Three old men are the last inhabitants of an abandoned village. Despite the daily difficulties, they want to live and stay in their own place.

The story about 40-year-old Vasily, who has been trying to find for more than 20 years happiness in the city. When coming back home to the village, he understands that his already nobody waits and nobody wants it already.

After a car accident, the parents died in the family. The younger brother miraculously survived and is now confined to a wheelchair. The elder feels guilty, but to no avail. He does not want to put up with the fact that the younger brother will remain disabled. He decides to help him in an unusual way. The elder brother steals the car from his grandfather, and leaves with his brother to the river.

After a long absence, Arkady returns to his parents' house and restores the tombstones of his ancestors. He plunges into memories of the terrible events of his childhood. These experiences are difficult for him. Soon, Arkady pays more and more attention to a strange neighbor who, as he later finds out, is hiding a terrible secret.

An ordinary quarrel between teenagers spills over into a parent chat and leads to a serious conflict. At this time, in the hospital, the girl asks for an urgent operation, but the doctor, in fear of breaking the law, does not dare to perform it until midnight, when the girl becomes an adult. Somewhere in one of the apartments a frank story unfolds about a man who, secretly from his wife, begins to flirt with a seductive neighbor. In a neighboring house, a young guy borrows a lot of money from a businessman to play on the difference in exchange rates, but on this particular day the dollar exchange rate goes crazy. And the crazy old man, meanwhile, goes to another city to meet with the killer of his son, so that he will answer for everything. All of them are faced with the question of choosing and making difficult decisions on which their lives depend.

Documentary by Dmitry Davydov

The film shows a few days from the life of a simple young, rural boy who has life difficulties: can't find a job and pay off his mortgage, but still with a good heart – helps a lonely, sick grandmother chop wood, light the stove and buy food.

Early morning in a Yakut village, a shot... Those who committed the crime hide in the forest, where they are accidentally found by local women. They tell everyone in the village about it. Enraged residents decide to carry out lynching.

"Illegal" is an action-packed drama about a young migrant from Central Asia who comes to Yakutia to solve his problem.

In the distant Alaas near the forest, a lonely old man lives happily in a booth and is engaged in moonshine brewing. A teenage grandson comes to him for the summer holidays. The grandson is dissatisfied, thinks that he will be bored here. But not this time. It turns out that the old man has a chicken nest on the roof of the booth, in which eggs lie every morning. It's unclear where it came from, and where the chicken itself is. After a while, a stranger falls on their head and just as mysteriously disappears. A series of amazing meetings and events will make this summer unforgettable.

A film-portrait of a sacred place for Yakutia — Kharama Khayata — and its residents who are trying to preserve the heritage of their ancestors, through legends and oral folk art to instill a love and respect for the unique Yakut culture. Will they manage to keep their sacred mountain and own history?