Batrbek Dzboev

An anthology film comprising two comedy shorts about life in rural Ossetia.

A wistful, whimsical look at life in a mountainous Ossetian village through the eyes of a boy who lost his father in WWII.

A group of amateur climbers is searching in the mountains for a figurine of a golden goddess, the location of which is encrypted in a map. One of the groups disappears, and with it the diaries, which may contain a decoding of the location of the treasure. After some time, the climbing friends meet again at the mountain hotel where they once began their search. As it turned out, someone really doesn’t want the search for the map and the missing climbers to continue...

During the holidays, Aslan meets an old geologist Petrovich, who lived and worked in these places before the war. Here he left a bag with the only photo of his family, who died during the war. Aslan helps Petrovich find the people who have been carefully storing the bag with the photo all this time.

After getting robbed and hoodwinked by a trio of criminals, a highlander finds an ingenious way to exact his revenge.

A young agronomist dreams of developing a new early-ripening variety of corn. Despite difficulties and comic situations, he not only succeeds in his plans, he finds his love.

Bitsko, a modest and overly compassionate postman, spends every day tending to his fellow villagers, sharing their joys and sorrows.

A documentary about Jamalutdin Muslimov, an eccentric folk dancer and choreographer from the remote village of Chukna in Dagestan, who walked across the entire republic to revive forgotten dances — and was lovingly called a "crank" for his obsession.