The Darlings

The film "Artyom Tomilov" tells the story of a modern-day Odysseus with an ironic and elegiac tone. Theater director Artyom Tomilov, who grew up in the marginalized outskirts of Omsk, returns to his hometown after 15 years to stage an autofictional play about himself. The events unfolding during the production become part of the play, alongside the myths, spirits, and memories of the hero's past and the people of Omsk.

Roma is Russian-Armenian. He is studying to be a lawyer but does not want to be a lawyer, he tells his parents that he goes to college, but he works in a pizzeria, he tells a friend that he likes Natasha, but this is not true. Once he meets Lesha, and everything in life takes on meaning: study, friendship, relationships with relatives and friends. Everything in life becomes important with love.

“Then a solemn white manor was opened on a high place, depopulated to a homeless appearance ... Like graves on the churchyard, the remains of services and small houses lay in the thickets of grasses and bushes. The columns guarded the empty, buried world. Ornamental noble trees kept their slender bodies above this death "- Andrey Platonov, the story" Chevengur ".

Conversations with Tatyana Ozerova - the last projectionist of Lenfilm.

Haystacks in the field behind the house, ice stream over already quite rotten bridge, river dam - The author returns to Shuvoe following his child's memory. The dramatic Change of the village's image may not leave him indifferent. Bygone traditions, the faces of the beloved ones, that are about to vanish.

Once Vlad discovers a strange object in the lining of his coat, he immediately decides that the insidious damage is to blame for all his recent failures. Trying to dissuade Vlad, his girlfriend Sasha turns their supernatural problems into real ones. The film explores a young couple's attempt to mend their lives and rebuild a dying relationship through flirting with religious esoteric themes. Is it possible to successfully convince yourself that your problems will be solved through a mystical ritual or will you still have to face reality?