There Is No God But Me

A documentary road movie. Traveling across his homeland, the filmmaker explores what Yakut cinema is, and what it means to the Sakha people and to himself.

An ordinary quarrel between teenagers spills over into a parent chat and leads to a serious conflict. At this time, in the hospital, the girl asks for an urgent operation, but the doctor, in fear of breaking the law, does not dare to perform it until midnight, when the girl becomes an adult. Somewhere in one of the apartments a frank story unfolds about a man who, secretly from his wife, begins to flirt with a seductive neighbor. In a neighboring house, a young guy borrows a lot of money from a businessman to play on the difference in exchange rates, but on this particular day the dollar exchange rate goes crazy. And the crazy old man, meanwhile, goes to another city to meet with the killer of his son, so that he will answer for everything. All of them are faced with the question of choosing and making difficult decisions on which their lives depend.

Two Yakutian fathers who lost their sons become locked in a tormenting cycle of revenge against a pristine snowy landscape.

A heinous crime is committed in a small remote Russian village. Police officer Afonya is a prime suspect. The locals are ready to take matters into their own hands. Investigator Sirditov faces a difficult task: he must find out all of the facts of this case before the villagers decide to execute their own justice. This Yakuti film was made in the Republic of Sakha.

A teacher at a Yakut music school must make a choice between a sacred song from the dark past and love that heralds a bright future.

Seven stories about good and evil neighbours. A young son takes his father's gun without asking and lends it to a friend. A young man brings his bride to his home, but the meeting with his relatives turns into a dangerous conflict and only the village head can prevent a tragedy. The head of a young family sells the house of a relative and accidentally loses money because of this. His relationship with his wife begins to deteriorate. Will they be able to keep the family together? All the characters will have to make a difficult choice… A crazy anthology consisting of seven funny, dramatic and complex stories about the relationships of families, neighbours, relatives, and friends.

She is a healer. A hermit. A Fool-in-God. She is a little over forty years old. She doesn’t disdain alcohol. She can be ridiculous, humiliated, offended. She has long been indifferent about herself. Everybody avoids her and is afraid of her, but secretly at night they all hurry to her home. After all, only she can get rid of their illnesses. For her, this is a damnation, and each time she swears that she won’t help people any more, but each time she is unable to refuse them. She knows that her gift will ruin her some time, but she continues to be the only chance of salvation for people.

The story about 40-year-old Vasily, who has been trying to find for more than 20 years happiness in the city. When coming back home to the village, he understands that his already nobody waits and nobody wants it already.

"Illegal" is an action-packed drama about a young migrant from Central Asia who comes to Yakutia to solve his problem.

Early morning in a Yakut village, a shot... Those who committed the crime hide in the forest, where they are accidentally found by local women. They tell everyone in the village about it. Enraged residents decide to carry out lynching.

After a long absence, Arkady returns to his parents' house and restores the tombstones of his ancestors. He plunges into memories of the terrible events of his childhood. These experiences are difficult for him. Soon, Arkady pays more and more attention to a strange neighbor who, as he later finds out, is hiding a terrible secret.

Father and daughter are fitting out their house away from civilization. Shots are heard in the forest and the father is surprised to learn that his daughter has killed an unexpected animal for dinner. Since this moment, he realizes trouble is close.

A young woman lives with her husband in a small apartment, a convenient refuge from external problems—the pandemic and social upheavals. When her husband goes away on a business trip, she, having not set foot in the house for a month, begins to experience strange things. Objects disappear from under her hands, a window opens by itself, or soil appears in the apartment. She is plagued by bad dreams and visions of her late mother.

After moving to a new house, the hero meets an unknown girl-neighbor and immediately becomes a witness of inexplicable events. Trying to understand the mystical events, the hero enters into a confrontation with the girl's father, who keeps a shocking secret.

In a Yakut village, one opposite the other, two single-parent families live, without mothers. The timid and unrequited Ivan is constantly humiliated by his neighbor, the impudent and self-confident Tikhon. After Tikhon beats Ivan in front of his son, the teenager becomes disillusioned with his father and begins to spend more and more time with his offender.

Defying his father's wish to pass on the family reindeer-herding business, a young Evenk decides to leave for the city to work—a choice that becomes a personal tragedy for the herder.