Production
Four friends convene at a café and engage in a peculiar game entitled "Empty Space". Thereafter, their paths diverge for a prolonged period. Each endeavours to find self-realisation through various forms of creative activity, seeking to impose their minor and superfluous art upon a vast and indifferent world.
A knight wakes up from a long sleep in the forest. Time has stopped, nature is withering. He must remember who he was and what happened.
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.
Nunya life is a complete kick. Her only love ex-boyfriend Lev is now dating another girl. In the company of the best friends, wine and shawarma, Nunya is desperately trying to realize who is to blame for the fact that her plan has failed. And most importantly - what to do when you want to drop everything and just be happy.
A loose adaptation of Chekhov's "The Man in a Case," where the school is replaced by a frantic TikTok house, and the Greek teacher is replaced by a panicked blogger trying to hide his life from the absurdity around him.
"Closing" is a film almanac made up of nine verses. Instead of a rap beat, there is beer, rain, a beach, a zoo, random conversations, and a city that lives its own life. These are not stories with a beginning and an end, but statements written into the rhythm of the festival, where cinema becomes a way to be together and a way to be alone. Any almanac is a film cypher: everyone goes to the microphone, says their piece, and leaves, leaving room for someone else. "Closing" is exactly that: a collection of voices in which you can hear laughter, fatigue, love, and meaninglessness. This is a film about how cinema closes the day and opens the night.
A story about a guy who is confused in his relationship.
Kataluska, a young saleswoman at a rural grocery store, falls in love with a newcomer, Andrey, who wants to sell his potato stocks and move to a big city. The guy turns out to be unprepared for a relationship, so the girl decides to take her fate into her own hands.
A single man spends a night with a married woman at a resort. She leaves around morning, and he is left with a hair crab she has left behind and an unclear sense of new experience.
Polina is a vocal student and in love with a married man. This film explores the relationship to love, as a first and unknown love, lost entirely, silent.
