Nikita Karmen

Polina lives and works in a small hotel in the northern border town. She and her friend Nadia dream of a different, paradise and exotic world. The girls almost never leave the empty immobilized hotel and live, performing their strange daily rituals in the hope that someday they will lead them to a miracle. Once a stranger arrives at the hotel.

Two elderly friends plan their own funerals in an attempt to conquer their fear of death, but instead find themselves feeling alive again.

Film critic Rita, in an attempt to meet “the one,” embarks on a journey through the labyrinth of her own memories, emotions, and feelings.

Leonid Desyatnikov is the most played Russian composer of today. Unparalleled, his music is performed all over the world from the Bolshoi Theatre and Paris’s Opéra Garnier to Milan’s La Scala and New York’s Carnegie Hall. While he usually shuns publicity, this time, he will open up to share some of his innermost thoughts. From the genius’s weekday routine and musings to the bold premiere involving the iconic conductor Teodor Currentzis, this movie is an attempt at unraveling the enigma that is the paradox of the composer’s music and persona.

Office clerk Maxim witnesses a car accident. The affected girl is experiencing clinical death, which lasted 4 minutes. After her “return”, Maxim’s life changes dramatically: all his dreams are realized with the help of a girl’s mysterious gift. How far will Maxim lead his desires?

A young man who is filming porn gets acquainted with another heroine of his new video. She urgently needs money for a ticket to go home. He is ready to give them to her on the condition that the girl will make him “nice”, and he will take it on camera. She agrees. However, this time everything goes according to plan. It looks like the girl has another script for his new video.

In the world of total control and exploitation, in a city possessed by the neo-nazi hit squads, a queer boy is trying to find a safe place in the mysterious villa, avoided by the locals because of the yellow flag, a symbol of the plague.

The documentary biopic gives an insight into the life and music of Anatoliy Krupnov, one of the brightest rock stars of the late- and post-Soviet era. This is the story of the talented musician who created the cult rock group Cherny Obelisk (The Black Obelisk), the portrait of an artist and at the same time an accurate depiction of the era and its generation, the music and the ideas that guided minds and rock music at the turn of the century.

Agnia lives an ordinary student life with her boyfriend Marat. Everything changes with the arrival of a new teacher in psychology. She has an interest in him that reveals the sexual pathology of a girl.

The film's protagonist, a hearing-impaired high school student named Styopa, is in love with Yulia, with whom he studies at the same school. At graduation, he will have to make an important choice for his fate: to confess his feelings to her or not. The film presents two parallel plot developments, demonstrating alternative outcomes of their relationship depending on Styopa's decision: a long-term relationship leading to the creation of a family, or a breakup. The voice-over in poetic form reveals the inner world of the characters and the peculiarities of communication with people with hearing impairments.

Tanya raises two children alone during the day and works as a taxi driver at night. Everything changes when she learns about a serious diagnosis. Now she is worried about only one thing: who will the children stay with if the disease turns out to be stronger? Tanya is not ready to entrust them to unreliable relatives and decides to find a worthy man, marry him to herself, so that if something happens, he will take care of the children. The only person with whom Tanya shares her thoughts is her doctor. Suddenly the plan works, and at some point there are too many applicants.

The story of a young and talented musician, Senya. Obsessed with classical music, he dreams of enrolling at a prestigious conservatory. For him, everything in the world looks straightforward and clearcut, as he follows his devotion to playing the violin. However, reality becomes far more complicated when he finds himself caught up in the criminal world of drugs trafficking. Blackmailed into becoming a drugs mule he quickly realizes that his new life of crime is both a social elevator and a quick way to earn some easy money. It's a role which brings him new friends, financial freedom, and confidence...but it also threatens his deeply felt dream. Senya’s risk-filled journey deals with the complexities of growing up, surviving adolescence and the choices young people have to make every day. But will Senya manage to stay true to himself, pursue his dreams and emerge unscathed?

Stories about love, its various facets and manifestations.