Lidiya Yartseva
Writing
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Seventeen-year-old Georgian Dato and his grandmother try to find common ground in the ruins of their once large family. Everything is going according to plan until Dato's mother suddenly appears on the doorstep after many years of absence.
Sidney Lumet's Day of Birth

The story takes place in 2011 against the backdrop of the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in the Far East. Ex-gangster Igor Khlebnikov works in a burger shop. Once, due to the ATM glitch, he receives 2.5 million rubles in cash, which starts a series of terrible and funny events.
Jackpot

Twenty-year-old vagabond Damir returns to Alma-Ata to restore his documents and start a normal life. In the meantime, he chooses a free apartment in the very center of the city - the roof of a multi-story building. It soon turns out that a teenager with autism, Kostik, who runs away from an apartment in the building and calls himself "Agent Koklinch", also considers the roof his own. While they fight for territory, Kostik regains his lost speech, and his family clings to Damir as if he were a miracle worker. But Damir has enough of his own problems, but everything changes with the appearance of Sofia, a student of Kostik's mother. In pursuit of the girl's heart, Damir throws himself into an adventure that makes him reconsider his ideas about normality.