Dmitry Gladyshev

A knight wakes up from a long sleep in the forest. Time has stopped, nature is withering. He must remember who he was and what happened.

A group of girls sets off for a remote island to learn kitesurfing. They dream of soaring above the water like their instructors, strange, rude guys obsessed with the waves and wind. The boys aren't exactly thrilled about having to teach someone, but they need the money for a trip to Cape Verde. What is true kitesurfing—the joy of flight or the pain and humiliation? And what is freedom for the islanders—embracing their own path or escaping the big world?

In 1942, Red Army officer Nikolai Kiselyov receives orders to evacuate over 200 Jewish women, children, and elderly men facing brutality and death in Nazi-occupied Belarus. These exhausted, starving, terrified and bereaved people, deeply scarred by the horrors they have witnessed, must trek hundreds of kilometers along forest paths to regain hope of survival and faith in the future.

After another grueling workday, Egor—the owner, manager, and mechanic of an auto repair shop—awaits his childhood friends, as he does one Friday a month, looking to escape his troubles and play cards. Having worked almost without a day off for years, Egor now lives at the shop. The friends gather, but beneath their initially cheerful mood, their own problems begin to surface—and those problems are every bit as serious.

Katya and Sasha love each other, but everyone has a business of his life. He is a doctor, she is a modern artist. Katya begins to move away from Sasha and be ashamed of his ignorance. He feels out of place among the artistic environment of his wife, but he cannot leave.

Viktor, a successful businessman and former doctor, illegally returns to the hospital to help his mother who is sick with COVID-19. Risking his life and freedom trying to figure out what it is, he, along with the medical team, helps the hospital to better prepare for the impact of the pandemic.