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Misha and Philip have been friends since childhood, but now Phillip has to move to another city with his parents. As their strong friendship suddenly begins to unravel, what seemed like innocent child's play before now turns into new, unfamiliar feelings.
Summer. During the admission to the acting school, Lisa gets acquainted with one of the entrants and leads him to the sculpture workshop of her father, where they spend several days together. In a closed space, their relationship becomes a game. Without borders, without time, without skin. An intimate depiction of a passionate, and sometimes violent, relationship between two young actors at an acting school in St Petersburg.
A Berlinale Fellowship awarded short feature.
The two met to mark the impending divorce.
Four collections of short films based on poems by poets of the Silver Age.
When does your childhood go away? It goes away when instead of playing football with other kids you sit down and silently contemplate the river. When your thoughts don’t let you sleep, and a lightning bug beats in a pot like a heart. When poems come into your mind and you feel you really need to sing. It goes away when you suddenly realize: this summer is going away and it is the last summer of your childhood.
The story is focused on two siblings: a brother and a sister from a poor family. Their father is gone and their mother is in poor health. To keep their heads above water the children are forced to swindle out money. For him it is a way to survive and to take responsibility for his family as a man. For her it is a game. But the rules are not as simple and evident as they seem.
When you feel you need a fresh start, do something remarkable. Shave your head. That’s what Sasha did when she discovered that she was no longer able to live with her grandpa, who raised her, but is now hospitalized with cancer. Sasha has to move from a small town to her Dad’s in the Moscow suburbs. Unexpectedly everybody in Moscow takes her — shaved and lost — for a boy. From that point Sasha begins her wandering through the big city and its lonely, hidden places.
In this series of shorts, the phrase "Gay Agenda" is reclaimed from the religious right and transformed into a celebration of gay culture. Sit back and enjoy "Boundaries," "Before You Go," and "I Am Not Afraid."
