Makar Khlebnikov

Half-brothers Yura, Ruslan, and Pyotr form a close family with their mother Flora. In 1995 Russia, greed and violence threaten their bond as they navigate underground clubs, fights, and the collapse of their once-secure world.

Anna is a successful lawyer who does not hesitate to tell her longtime friend Larisa that she wants to choose a "husband for three months", since she has a complex project and needs a lightning rod and constant sex. Two ideal options reached the final of her selection: a young technocrat pedant and an aged businessman reveller. Both are successful, both are interesting, and both are passionate about her. However, suddenly She finds out that her life will sparkle with new and not the fact that bright colors. She's going to be a grandmother. The obtuse son returns from England with his Pakistani daughter-in-law. So now Anna chooses not a "husband for three months", but a grandfather for her granddaughter.

Julia's son dies during a hike in the mountains. However, after the funeral, she receives a mysterious video in the mail in which she sees her son alive. Everything indicates that he is being held somewhere on Sakhalin, in the area of the Severnaya-2 drilling station. Julia goes to Sakhalin in search of her son. Her ex-husband Andrey flies there after her. Parents will have to search for their son for a long time in a dying snow-covered village, in a harsh region where strangers are not welcome.

A college boxer juggling studies and caring for his brother with cerebral palsy falls in love with a new teacher, but family pressure leads to a heartbreaking clash. As tragedy strikes, the family must search for a way back to hope.

This is a story about commitment and dedication to one's talent which resonates with the difficult topic of the mother's love deficit that is relevant for many.

A young man named Kesha returns to his village after a long absence. He has completed a prison term but now simply wants to live a quiet, normal life. His younger brother, only 17, has plans for college. However, the brothers’ perspectives on the future shift dramatically when Kesha joins a gold-mining crew.

Five aspiring directors, five short stories about the discovery of cinema. Each short story is an independent story exploring how cinema begins, how it influences us and where the line between the screen and reality lies. The film almanac has the widest range of genres, themes, geography of authors, time of action and even frame format. It can be a short sketch from the set, where the lighting technician suddenly changes places and importance with the most influential auteur director; preparation for the first film screening in Rus'; a conversation between friends immediately after the film; a story of a difficult choice between creative freedom and a career; and finally, a free interpretation of the 1986 film about the life of a simple fisherman from Kaliningrad.

When two spoiled hipsters embark on the rusty trawler for a summer internship, they get much more than what they bargained for. This shabby boat is the floating home of a dozen weary and irritable sailors, whose only priority is making money and not getting killed in the process. Ice-cold waves, incredibly beautiful but severe seascapes, hard labour and tons of stinking fish is the daily menu. The sea is unpredictable, and the upcoming storm is not the main test that awaits the ship’s crew. Their trip to sea, however, turns out to be more serious and more tragic than either of them could have imagined.

Yura, a traffic police officer disappointed in love, turns out to be an accidental guest of a wedding party at the dacha of Moscow creative youth. The happiness of the young couple and the atmosphere of the evening make him remember his own feelings.

In the near future a documentarist captures a great tragedy while making a story about an experimental theatre that uses technology to immerse audience in the consciousness of actors on stage

Four friends arrange film screenings for the residents of their village. After another outdoor session, they return home. Their conversations about cinema, life and the future are intertwined with subtle matters and eternal arguments.

Three teenagers get their hands on gas cutting equipment. Having decided to make money, the boys, without permission, take the car of a neighbor policeman and go to an abandoned construction site to cut and scrap an old tower crane. However, the crane falls on the car of the leader of the criminal group, who has just shot a trucker in front of their eyes. Trying to escape, the friends get into an accident and crash the car. What seemed like a profitable business is becoming the beginning of a whole series of problems.

A story about how Vitya overcomes his fear of intimacy.