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Returning to her hometown, Masha meets Pasha, whom she hasn't seen for many years. Together they overcome the death of a beloved one thus coming closer to each other. But their lives, full of dreams and losses, are rather different and drive them apart again and again. Each meeting brings back the old spark, but neither can decide to anything more. Through trauma and failure,they mature, learn to love, and try to figure out who they are to each other.
Lear, the aging king of Britain, decides to step down from the throne and divide his kingdom evenly among his three daughters.
Egor lives in a small seaside town and is graduating from high school this spring. He cannot stand the routine of his life much longer, and with his loyal friends Kisa and Hank, they start to look for excitement in their small town.
Former classmates Masha and Pasha are trying to sort out their feelings and the past once again, they are not doing well. Pasha has a child and an unloved wife now, Masha has a new man who beats her. Maybe this is the meeting when they will be able to get out of this circle of unhappiness?
In the dead of night, Olya tries to find out: who is Sveta, whom her husband Kolya calls in his sleep? The search for Sveta will reveal many sore points in the shaky relationships of the young family, but the coming wise morning will put everything in its place.
Yura has an unusual diagnosis: his heartbeat is limited. He avoids even the slightest stress to survive. Until a girl appears who needs constant surges of emotion, adrenaline, and electric shocks to survive.
Five dreams against the walls of a never-sleeping city. The film is a mosaic about the sleepers and the awakened. What kind of Muscovites are they? Thinking, contemplating, doubting, loving and dreaming? What they see when they close their eyes is more important than what they see when they open them.
The Ferris wheel is a good place for a last date, because the circle describes all the stages of a relationship. At the bottom, you go into a booth together, go up to the peak, and then everything goes down again. Moreover, no matter how much you swear at the top, you still have to get out of it together at the bottom. During this time, the characters manage to piss each other off, drink, make a wish, swear, hug goodbye and even literally leave the heart.
A desperate lover is rescued from a scrape by his friend. And it doesn’t matter that it’s plush.
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?
Yury Butusov’s final Moscow production is this multi-award-winning work based on Nikolai Gogol’s “Government Inspector.” The play deftly delves into the dual impossibilities of both accepting reality and escaping from it. As with many of Butusov’s stagings, chaos and pathos are seamlessly interwoven, with art presented as both freeing and healing.
A man and a woman are fishing on a remote lake, unaware of how their fishing trip will end. When the sun sets, the inevitable will happen.
Minsk, August 2020. Pasha and Yulia, a young married couple, leave the house at night and find themselves in the midst of peaceful protests. Everyday walk turns into a real hell, in which innocent people are victims of police brutality.
Kostya and Olya are university teachers. On vacation at a sanatorium, Olya found a more respectable partner for herself - Sergey. He is a wealthy man obsessed with a healthy lifestyle and active sports. Upon arrival, Olya leaves a note for her husband and leaves the house, blocking all contact with Kostya. Sergey has a daughter, Sonya. Kostya finds nothing better than to try to start an affair with her in order to gain access to Sergey and his new lover. Sonya does not find Kostya very attractive. However, the opportunity to irritate her father at a dinner with her potential stepmother seems tempting. After all, her father recently kicked out her boyfriend Maks for "not being serious."
The comedy melodrama in mockumentary format. Maria is seriously ill preparing for death: chooses a coffin, buys a dress, orders a place in the cemetery. Despite his wife has already reconciled to the destiny, Peter is secretly looking for money to pay for expensive treatment abroad.
A subtle melodrama in the old style about youth, memories and the first infatuation that never stops to shine. It is a story about the encounter between two separate universes, of a Russian student and an American researcher, in a tent in nature amidst stunning landscapes of the Caucasus. It begins well and ends well, too. The visual form which illustrates the film contents is an experiment with the format and the use of black, white and colour. With a scent of nostalgia, this cinema evokes the spirit of narration that is rare nowadays. It pays tribute to an old-style romance and is an expression of longing for the little big experiences in life.
Slava and Katya come to the forest for a picnic. This is an important day for Slava; he proposes marriage to Katya. But this fabulous walk will have an unexpected ending.
Dasha, Zhenya and Vassa are friends. It’s Zhenya’s birthday, and they are preparing to celebrate it, but on this day Vassa’s boyfriend leaves him. The girls will have to forget about the holiday and help their close friend survive her grief.
