Directing
The film is based on the Bashkir legend about seven girls who gave their lives defending homeland from marauding raiders. It shows the ancient Bashkirs' way of life and view of the universe through folk songs: Giants, idols, and the division of the world into the World of Angels, the World of The Living and the World of the Dead. Dying in an unequal battle, the girls go to the upper world and turn into stars of the Big Dipper, which Bashkirs name Etegan.
“Summer. City. Love.” is a multi-genre almanac dedicated to the inhabitants of cities. It consists of 8 short stories, related in one way or another. Stories about the main feeling - love, and how different it can be.
A city prosecutor’s investigator arrives in a working-class settlement to investigate a murder and unexpectedly meets the woman of his dreams.
A village elderly couple decides to replace their old wooden bench with a proper bed, leading to unexpected and amusing changes in their daily life.
Old man Akhmat arrives in the city from a village to fulfill the last wish of a dying woman — to see her grandson Ruslan. However, Ruslan turns out to be a successful banker for whom career matters more than family values.
An eight-year-old boy begins to grapple with life’s deepest questions about existence, meaning, and death far earlier than most.
Schoolboy Pashka Kostin is injured and falls into a coma. His friends decide that Pashka's soul has moved into a yard dog named Pirate. The friends are looking for all sorts of ways to get the soul out of the dog and return it to Pashka. In the end, the old proven method works - the princess kisses the "sleeping beauty" Pasha.
