Empty Rooms

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Outskirts of Moscow. A girl comes to an unfamiliar apartment to look after a dog. After a while, she realizes that the owner of the apartment has disappeared. She finds herself into a series of people that have been taking care of the dog for years in that same apartment, creating a weird community around this strange absence of the owner.

Continuity of Parks

Deprived of their familiar context, the heroes of ancient Greek myths find themselves in a Moscow park.

Rio

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.

Three Secret Clues of Longing

Simple demands of love, which are usually hidden behind closed doors of fear and vulnerability, are playfully celebrated here as a riddle of shapes and gestures found among tons of archival material.

City of Owls

On the last evening before her departure, Vera is putting her small sister to bed. To hide the real reason for her leaving, she tells her a bedtime fairy tale instead. It's the story of a city swallowed by an eternal night.