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Moscow. 1937. Thirteen-year-old Nikita is on the threshold of adolescence. He is full of hopes and dreams, which are interrupted at dawn by an insistent knock at the door. NKVD officers have come for his father. Nikita's parents task him with getting rid of incriminating documents kept at home. Nikita, attempting to carry out this task, comes face to face with the commissar. Now the hero faces a difficult choice: hand over the documents or put up a desperate resistance.
Rita is a poetically gifted girl who is just beginning to search for her place in this world. To realize her dreams and escape from her father, who began dictating his rules to her after her mother's death, Rita gets a job as a nurse for the daughter of a former teacher. Faith in herself will help her gain independence from the people and circumstances around her and go towards her dream.
Junior Sergeant Komarov is driving a detainee, Grisha, to the station for formal documentation. Along the way, the officer learns the details of the suspect's experience. Having learned all this, Komarov faces a moral dilemma: follow the law or remain a human being.
Dasha, nicknamed "Little One," is in love with her older sister Nastya's boyfriend. Wanting to be closer to him, she constantly intrudes, disrupting their relationship and pestering her sister with questions about him. Oblivious to the seriousness of Malaya's feelings, Nastya decides to teach her a lesson, but the "lesson" goes too far. "Little One" is a film about competition, intimacy, and the boundless love of sisters.
Architect Alya is going through a difficult time: her personal life is failing, and her professional plans are falling apart. Trying to start over, she takes on a competition project for a country house for a young couple—blogger Inna and IT director Sasha. Unexpectedly, she discovers that Sasha is the creator of her favorite city podcast, "Piter, My Love". A series of coincidences sets in motion a romantic plot in which the city itself becomes a participant.
High school students Sasha and Nina secretly sneak into an empty hotel room. They are going to have sex for the first time to keep up with their more advanced classmates. However, everything is not going according to plan, and young people understand that this is not just a one-night relationship - this is first love.
A documentary short film by Polina Kondratieva, a graduate of VGIK (workshop of the Kott brothers).
