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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.

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...

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

Two years have passed since Sasha left the orphanage. It is difficult for her to adapt socially, she perceives the world as a hostile environment. Since childhood, the girl has been used to defending her right to life and solving problems through fights – she spends all her free time in the basement hall in the ring for fights without rules. Despite the fighting nature and hobbies, deep down Sasha dreams of exactly the opposite: not to cripple people, but to treat them. But there is no money for studying at a medical school, and they do not take people to a hospital without an education. Fate brings her together with a disabled teenager Kolya, whose mother is torn between her son, work at a fish factory and a policeman boyfriend, and tries to find a nurse for her son. This meeting radically changes the lives of all the heroes.

6 minutes, 23 seconds from life of an actor

New Year is coming at Lida's family. Her sister, Nadya, is dreaming about her acting career, but she is a doctor as her father. Lida too, has her own dreams. But they were a secret for her family until this New Year Eve. Would her family accept her own dream and decision? Would Lida's decision be acceptable for her?

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

Moscow writer ordered a story for the collection. At this time, his wife is going on a business trip to St. Petersburg. Writing imagination awakens jealousy in the main character.

Nine year-old Andrey lives on the outskirts of a small village near the sea. His mother wants to put him into an orphanage. Andrey is scared by the perspective and understands that his life will drastically change. One stormy day he finds a dog on the beach and decides that it is the mystical beast known as Chupacabra, a goat vampire, which will make a miracle. Debut film developed at the Ikusmira Berriak residencies programme.

The moment when something wonderful happened in the swamp.

A film about curses sent by ancestors and the Komi-Permyak people, for whom these are still very real, perhaps even more so than material things.

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.

A cute young man admires photos of his beloved. Full face, profile, close-up, medium. And suddenly, to his horror, he sees treason. She's with someone else — dancing, hugging, kissing. Fas, profile. The photos make him angry. Treason must be punished. The hero in love grabs a gun and. he wakes up.

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.

The story of the young engineer Anton, constantly running around in search of work and the opportunity to prove himself. His life becomes like a carousel of monotonous fruitless attempts, but one day fate throws him an excellent proposal - a serious company, a big project, a life abroad. This proposal puts the hero in front of the choice between the future and the one most desired for him, the last, but the most expensive, that remains in his present life.

A beauty in the clutches of a monster. When there are only weaklings and scumbags around, there is nothing to hope for. But there must be a normal person somewhere! A savior who will help your dreams come true.

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.