The Relatives

Stories about strange, annoying and even scary moments in our lives: domestic violence, the madness of tick-tockers and their audience, the demands of society on girls and much more.

The year is 1993. 14-year-old Alex Ryabinin lives a normal teenage life - looking for adventure, trying to protect himself from hooligans, does not want learn music, does not know how to meet girls and which adults to follow as an example. On the one hand - an honest but poor family with a saleswoman mother and a father who is a docent, on the other - the dangerous world of an Afghan veteran Uncle Alik. And there's also the girl Zhenya, whose encounter triggers a series of irreversible events that will forever change the life of Alex. Running away from hooligans, Alex steals a car of local criminal authority, and in an instant everything changes. Will he be able to cope with all the problems, being in the heart of events? Will he be able to save his family and finally understand who he is? Only one thing is clear - life will never be the same again. Not for Alex himself, nor for the whole of Russia.

Vanya is an anesthesiologist and intensive care specialist working in a Moscow clinic. A few years ago, his girlfriend Masha died of an overdose, and her mother was paralyzed after such a tragedy. Vanya feels guilty and tries to somehow correct the mistakes of the past - for this it is necessary to raise a large amount of money for the operation to his mother, and the only real way to earn them is to become a "drip" — a person who illegally "pumps out" the rich and famous.

Ilya is 30 years old, he is a confident sucker, and Asa is 25, and she is an insecure beauty. Together, they grab any job in an attempt to survive in the big city and save money for a dream home.

Cortisol is a hormone that helps the body mobilize energy in an emergency. Unfortunately, a number of factors (from stress, excessive exercise, fasting to coffee) keep cortisol levels consistently high. Chronic high cortisol levels are exhausting and dangerous.

The first feature film about KVN. A unique project filmed at the KVN festival in Sochi without the permission of the festival organizers. The history of this path to the heights of the youth game itself.

A young boy is looking for his girlfriend in the city of Vladivostok.

The head coach of the Russian national rugby team returns to his hometown. He needs to start all over again - become an ordinary physical education teacher, assemble a team and make it a champion. But the team is too bright a definition for guys who can't stand each other. Yesterday's hooligans will have to unite to get the right to a better life and master the most gentlemanly sport.

Dmitriy is a popular actor, a star of action films. The public loves him for his image of a macho with an impenetrable face. One day, Dmitriy receives an offer from a stern but very rich businessman from Siberia, Sergey, to star in a crime drama about the 90s in the lead role of a cold-blooded killer. Sergey offers Dmitriy's agent a fee 10 times higher than usual. They agree. During the filming, Dmitriy is accidentally wounded by a shot. After a simple operation, he is ready to return to the frame, but faces an unexpected side effect: now he constantly smiles, and any emotions are expressed with laughter. Dmitriy has no chance to stop filming and "upset" Sergey, who clearly knows firsthand what he is making a movie about.

Viktor Gladyshev's childhood was cruelly interrupted by the war when he was eight years old. His memories, told in adulthood to a modern girl, Varya, create a powerful emotional bridge between generations.

Boris, in a state of deep depression, gets drunk in a bar and meets his childhood friend Kostya. He advises him to enroll in the Society of Optimists Anonymous.

The Kovalev family is going through hard times: dad, a former captain of the local Taiga hockey club, cannot recover from a serious injury, and mom has to cope with the role of the head of the family. Daughter in the midst of a crisis of transitional age, the youngest son has no friends. And when a boy brings into the house a tiny bear cub that has strayed from a bear on the outskirts of the city, their world begins to burst at the seams.

Courier goes to give the order to a married couple and becomes a witness to a chain of random deaths.

Xiao Lang is the daughter of a Chinese millionaire, she is flying from London to Guangzhou for her own wedding. The plane makes an emergency landing in Moscow. To make it to the ceremony in time and to catch the next flight to Guangzhou, Xiao Lang has to exit into the city, which she believes to be barbarous. During the next day, she is destined to live through the most wonderful adventures. Xiao Lang not only gets to know the real Moscow, but also meets a person who might be worth staying here for…

Familiar characters of any university: the greedy rector, the girl the whole course is in love with, computer game-obsessed "geeks", vigilantes who overestimate the importance of their work, self-confident fifth-year students and many others.