Dmitry Kargapolov

1942, a remote village in the rear. Sixteen-year-old Semka decides to volunteer for the partisans. Irina seeks to keep her son by force. However, the only one she can turn to for help is her nephew, a policeman. The movie is based on the story of the same name by Vasil Bykov.

Chronicle of the life of shift workers in a mining pit in Eastern Siberia. Workers spend a significant part of their lives away from home and loved ones, doing physical labor for 12 hours a day for the only decent income in their region.

The last thing Armenian citizens in 2022 expected was that their new neighbors would be thousands of Russians who fled Russia out of conscience or fear of ending up in Ukrainian black soil. Russian propaganda declares them traitors and calls on "those who remained" to unite in hatred against "those who left for warm countries". But are these countries warm? And can’t the "left" themselves cope with their own hatred without help from others?