Lera Vetkhova

In an empty studio space, three female filmmakers re-enact the testimonies of the survivors of sexual violence in Russia, using stop-motion, performance and pseudo-documentary rehearsals. As their fragile and sometimes ambiguous creative process unfolds, the filmmakers become both subjects and guides, inviting viewers into a shared gesture of remembrance, grief and empathy.

There are twenty minutes left until the premiere of the debut performance, and the leading actress is still not there. The young director urgently needs to find a way out.

Taras wakes up in the bowels of a garbage truck under tons of compressed waste. The only chance of salvation is a push-button telephone, on the line is Nastya, a rescue call center worker, who is simultaneously making a decision about what to do with an unwanted pregnancy.

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.

A girl chooses between a guy from a rich family who proposed to her and an ordinary boy from the neighborhood with whom she feels free.

Four friends, constantly swearing because of a broken car, can not get to the beach, but on the way they meet an angel in the face of a girl on a bicycle who decides to help them.