Alexey Zubarev

Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.

It is the future, the world is in ruins and a large portion of the population consists of deformed mutants living in reservations. In this world a man decides to spend his vacation visiting the ruins of a museum that is now buried under the sea.

The main character of our film is Ilyas Sharbuzov, an intensivist from Dagestan, and his family. Ilyas is a perfectionist, and if an emergency occurs, he always tries to be at the epicenter to help. Ilyas's wife, Aminat, worked in the intensive care unit, so she tries to be understanding of her husband's work. His young daughters have also become accustomed to their father's work schedule. But everything changes for Ilyas and his family when he is sent on a mission to a military hospital in a war zone.

A veteran of the Chechen War is helped by the ghosts of his two fallen comrades to leave the war behind.

1993 - the story of one family suddenly turns out to be the history of the whole country. The relationship of painfully and inextricably linked husband and wife, emergency workers, and the growing up of their daughter against the backdrop of global change.

A young Surrealist artist arrives in Leningrad to enter the Academy of Arts. In search of like-minded people, he goes around the city, gets to know his inhabitants and meets Alevtina, a girl who has already entered the bohemian environment...