Maksim Dobromyslov

This is the story of two sixteen-year-olds, Alexandra Makarova and Danila Krasnov, who are fighting for their love and their right to be themselves. In order to be together, they must escape from their homes, go into hiding, and lead a double life. Trying to protect their freedom of choice and their individuality, they cross the line and turn into Bonnie and Clyde on the run, trying to avenge the world that has no room for them.

In a small Ural village live only simple ordinary people except for the local hearing-impaired “fool” lyosha. he lives in a makeshift house made of garbage, weekly draws strange circles on the fields and tries to catch radio waves 24 hours a day in hope to contact representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations. the villagers laugh at lyosha and his strange hobbies, but everything changes when the one he has been calling for so long finally visits him.

Having reached her forty-fifth birthday, the disappointed female choreographer Agnes, on the verge of a nervous breakdown, realizes that her life is nothing more than an uninterrupted chain of artificial, far—fetched episodes. Agnes decides to go all in to create the production of her whole life. However, in order to achieve her goal, she must come face to face with her own ego, irrevocably absorbed by a dark and bloody Persona.

Mukhabbat, an Uzbek immigrant, works at a convenience store on the outskirts of Moscow. Just like the rest of the immigrants at the store, she is forced to work without getting paid and endure mental and physical abuse, until she overcomes her fear one day and takes her fate into her own hands.

Lonely young seamstress Masha rents an apartment from widower Valery, who recently lost his beloved wife. Unable to come to terms with the loss, Valery visits Masha almost every day, which prevents her from improving her personal life.

Love. Old age. Death. Youth. Two stories about the strange feelings. One tells how a mother's immense love can destroy her son’s fate. The second one shows that the love of a sick old man can give new life to a young girl.

At the end of September 2023, several people went into the forest to make a film about the end of the world. They lived in tents for ten days as the cold weather approached. Each person came up with a character. How would they like to meet the end? What scares them and what can give them hope? Collective life in difficult conditions led to the stories intersecting and the boundaries between people and characters disappearing.

"Closing" is a film almanac made up of nine verses. Instead of a rap beat, there is beer, rain, a beach, a zoo, random conversations, and a city that lives its own life. These are not stories with a beginning and an end, but statements written into the rhythm of the festival, where cinema becomes a way to be together and a way to be alone. Any almanac is a film cypher: everyone goes to the microphone, says their piece, and leaves, leaving room for someone else. "Closing" is exactly that: a collection of voices in which you can hear laughter, fatigue, love, and meaninglessness. This is a film about how cinema closes the day and opens the night.

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Eugene could have cut down and sold the entire wood, Maria could have made a successful career asa designer, if not for Snow Maiden. The fragile girl forces a married couple on the brink of divorce to stay together. What should be done to keep a lucky life afloat? Will the locks stop Snow Maiden from going away? After all, even the coldest heart longs for love.

Three old men are the last inhabitants of an abandoned village. Despite the daily difficulties, they want to live and stay in their own place.

After his wife's death, Valera lives alone in his parents' old house. Suddenly, his brother Tolya returns from Germany, where he left his wife and daughter in Russia. The two hurriedly paint the fence before winter comes, while trying to solve the mystery of the Git cigarettes found in the closet. These memories make them re-evaluate their current lives.

A happy family - parents and an angelic daughter. The mother loves her so much that she is ready to dissolve in the child without a trace... or is it the child who is ready to suck all the juices out of the mother?

Little Sash is afraid to get old. Sasha heard many times from her grandmother about her transient life that seemed to go by in a flash. In her words, you can close your eyes as a little girl and wake up as an elderly woman. One day Sasha desides to try this out. To close her eyes and see what happens in time.

A young family moves to the countryside to escape creditors. But in the village home of their deceased aunt, an evil more dangerous than any debt collector awaits them.

Experimental film. Reflections on the Russian film industry.

A documentary series following a family investigation. Sisters, whose parents died under mysterious circumstances, return to the site of the tragedy. In the series’ first two episodes, they seek to uncover the details of their family’s loss and explore whether childhood trauma can be healed.

A writer of sci-fi thrillers lives a happy life: two wonderful children, a caring husband, work she loves, and a cozy home. But one day, it all begins to crumble. A guest moves into the house—and it is as if the whole world turns to ice: her children grow distant, and her husband no longer trusts her. Rita sees things that no one else does: a halo in the sky, frost on the windows, the ghost of a deceased friend. She cannot tell whether she is imagining it all or not. Has she lost her mind, or is everything happening to her real?

The life of a simple worker begins to change dramatically when he receives love letters with confessions from a certain man. The plot is based on the play of the same name by Igor Stam at the Teatr.doc based on the play by Dmitry Karapuzov.

The film tells about the small town of Gubkin and its inhabitants. A little-known settlement in southern Russia has a huge iron ore quarry. Through the mosaic of local stories, we will see the city and the quarry next to it, like a living creature that influences people's lives with its mood.