VGIK

Veta is a student of the acting department of one of the capital's universities. She does not show great promise, but she firmly believes in her dream - to become the best in her field.

Viktor spends his free time trawling bars with ladies of questionable repute, from where he is picked up by a wife he doesn’t love, the mother of a child they never planned. Viktor himself was abandoned by his own father, his mother then committed suicide, and he was left to grow up in an orphanage. Years later, his errant dad returns, now a disabled felon, and Viktor discovers a timely legacy is in the offing – his father’s apartment. The documentation for securing dad’s move into an old people’s home is signed in a flash. Nevertheless, the only one that can take him is miles away and, what’s more, the invalid starts to recuperate during the journey, which is when their real problems begin.

A portrait of people who live on the margins of life and exist outside normal society.

An anthology of five stories that can literally happen to anyone.

Six various novels united in a one movie.

Office clerk Maxim witnesses a car accident. The affected girl is experiencing clinical death, which lasted 4 minutes. After her “return”, Maxim’s life changes dramatically: all his dreams are realized with the help of a girl’s mysterious gift. How far will Maxim lead his desires?

Young rapper Chizaru wakes up in a prison cell the morning after a wild party and tries to remember how he ended up in it.

A young man from a religious family is in love with his best friend, and her birthday falls on Easter. Instead of an Easter service with his family, he chooses a girlfriend's party and sets off on a journey through the night capital.

The story of the boy Sana, a pupil of a boarding school in the Far North. His father drowned in the White Sea, and one day the child's intransigence and thirst for justice lead the child to a small island. Sanya will have to face the local "hermit" and even the police, but, most importantly, the teenager will challenge the very elements.

Kolya Semenov grew up in a village, in a fishing village near the river. He likes a girl who wants to become an actress. Once Kolya steals a gazelle to impress the girl. Ahead of him are several years of roads and hills.

Sasha is going through a difficult stage in his life - his beloved wife left him! Sasha begins to drink and fall on the social bottom. It is there that he is destined to meet a man who will become for him a true friend.

Gelya is enjoying being young. Her elder sister Kristina is expecting a second child at the age of just 17, and people are predicting the same fate for 14-year-old Gelya. After going out for a walk with a boy who is besotted with her, she ends up getting drunk on strawberry beer and sitting on his lap while weeping over her own unrequited love. Gelya then returns home, just as her sister is discharged from the maternity hospital.

1990s. Three friends Vova, Mamed and Lyokha go to school and dream, like everyone else in Russia at this time, to open their own business. But first you need money. Everything seemed to be going well, but they were not allowed to the final exams. His Majesty the case in the image of the regional semi-criminal authority Kostik comes to the aid of aspiring entrepreneurs. Kostya's liver has rotted - he needs a new one. Young businessmen get the coveted organ, but only with it, with this organ, it is not so simple.

Carved to the beat verses of Allen Ginsberg and his eponymous poem, A Supermarket in California paints the most surreal contours of an America watched, dreamed, filtered through the eyes of a poet who meets Walt Whitman in a supermarket and pines for a world that may not exist.

An old teacher suffers from loneliness and insomnia. Long days are passing by, and there is no one who could support and help him. Incidentally, in an online advert of a brothel, he sees a girl's face, that makes his heart beat faster... A lost young woman and a lonely old man meet to change the course of their difficult destinies forever...

Uzbek citizen Yury Derbenev is sent to work in Moscow to raise money for the treatment of a seriously ill daughter. His profession, however, is inappropriate: Yury Alexeevich is a teacher of Russian language and literature. And by nationality he is Russian. After many ordeals and misfortunes into which the capital plunged him, Yury is faced with a choice: to go to kill and save his own daughter or remain an honest person.

"When I am released, I will simply move from one prison to another" (Oscar Wilde). Freedom rarely happens with us. "Who is not with us, we have here" - the words of the head of the correctional colony, which were written at the entrance to the prison.

Love is blind. In the literal and figurative sense. A middle-aged man falls in love with a young girl and loses his head. As a result of an accident the man becomes completely blind. After surgery, they rent a summer house at the countryside to relax. The girl becomes his only companion and guide in this new strange blind world. But the man feels that there is someone else in the house.

The story is about two aliens who came to Earth in search of their friend William, locked in the lantern of a security guard of a local recreation center.