Movie Talks & Quiz

Sasha's Hell

When rising rapper Oli finally meets his online collaborator Sasha, their weekend of hanging out turns from sweet to painfully awkward to terrifying. An underground live gig, a strange encounter with a goth girl, and finally a literal descent into hell are all captured on grainy VHS tape.

Cinemagic

Aspiring directors Lev Zaretski (a sadist) and Ruslan Romanov (an anime MC) will show you how to properly write a screenplay; cast actors; do a film shoot; and answer questions from annoying film festival attendees.

Drama

Three directors make a movie about the events of their past week. Relationships, work, and day-to-day personal struggle—the minute details still fresh on their minds—are shown with unseen crystal clarity that challenges the very notion of dramatic fiction.

Love & Partnership

Igor and Sveta visit Igor's hometown. Igor wants nothing more than to spend the weekend recording a fun vlog with his girlfriend when a talk with his mom uncovers more of a pressing problem in his relationship with Sveta.

Sad Music

A short documentary by Nikita Lavretski.

Nikita Lavretski

A cycle of mundane violence, lust for art, and existential dread—all chronicled in an unconventional self-titled docu-horror by Nikita Lavretski, who violently edits lo-fi footage of himself from age 0 to age 16.

The Bear's Lair

A self-portrait in winter. The director is taking a short rest among the key locations of his life. He reminisces about places forgotten, years gone by, and friends gone away.

The Tiniest Castle of the Nation Found (and for Sale!)

Lyosha Lyashenko: Idrak's Underpants

Lyosha Lyshenko, the enfant terrible of Russian-language stand-up, tells jokes about maniacs, the rapper Husky, and Idrak Mirzalizade's underpants, but mainly he performs tricks, dances, and stunts.

Loud Music

A lonely man contemplates the trouble of meeting girls in a bar.

TO RUTH:

A psychological thriller telling the story of a hikikomori obsessed with a female vlogger. The screenplay is based on the now-deleted blog by "quickpaws321", a man obsessed with Rose from the randytaylor69 channel.

May

Andrey lives in Minsk, Marina lives in Berlin. They used to date. Now, separated by hundreds of kilometers, they spend their days in a state of melancholic uncertainty.

A Date in Minsk

Nikita and Volha have been maintaining a dysfunctional relationship for the past 8 years. In the following movie they play fictional Nikita and Volha who have only just met. Can anything be started anew at the end of history?

Poetry

An ex-couple who write poems experience a curious synchronicity online.

Self-Portrait at Thirty

The director paints a self-portrait while feeling sad, using the modern paintbrush of TikTok face masks.

The Other Side

A scruffy man in his mid-forties finds in his mailbox a mysterious envelope with an audio cassette in it. His son's voice can be heard on the tape, telling a terrifying story of his life in the cursed Volynka neighborhood. This is how the father learns that the son has gathered a group to fight against the "possessed".