5 weeks
A pandemic has suddenly struck the world. And now Sergey and Masha are locked in one apartment for quarantine. When staying “in a cage”, they have to go through five stages of assuming the inevitable, to know each other deeper and accept themselves and the world around as they are.
Production: Russia, 2021
Duration: 85 min
Directed by: Alexander Andreev
Cast: Artyom Bystrov, Yuliya Shubareva
Flashmob
Ambitious journalist Daria is eager to fly high up the career ladder. She’s ready to do anything to please her boss Konstantin.
By fraud she makes friends with guys, which initiate occasional flashmobs in unexpected city locations.
The stories intertwine and force to make life-defining choices. The intolerable teenager Willie runs away from home, Konstantin suffers from unanswered love for an actress and an athlete Myshka gets an injury which threatens to end her sports career.
Dina herself falls in love with their leader Dan. She doesn’t want to lie to him any longer, but she has to finish her journalist story…
Production: Russia, 2021
Duration: 100 min
Directed by: Alyona Rubinshtein
Cast: Alyona Spivak, Nicolai Korotaev, Leeka Kalinina
The Diary Of The First-Grader’s Mom
Events in the film unfold in chronological order from the first PTA meeting to the last day of school first grader, illuminating the brightest days of the boy, his mom and dad.
Vasja’s family understands how carelessly they had lived before, and how much trouble and anxiety school time brings. The first year of Vasya’s study is a kind of miniature that unfolds the whole life. Friendship, first love, the throes of creation, betrayal, life in the community, hard work, overcoming the “obstacles” – that is, literally, like a snowball coming down a little boy. Who would support? Who would explain? Who would give an advice? Only the unity of the family and the school can help the child to cope with difficulties, which in turn makes parents proud of the boy. Now he feels more confident, and starts to adapt to adult life. Time goes unnoticed. Being in a lyrical mood, parents notice: “Well, the first class has ended …”
Production: Russia, 2014
Duration: 75 min
Directed by: Andrey Silkin
Cast: Svetlana Hodchenkova, Dmitry Endaltsev, Dima Polunin, Elena Yakvleva, Victor Sukhorukov, Galina Polskih
Not a Honeymoon
A wayward daughter of a successful businessman Khromov – Alena – in spite of her father wants to go to a trendy choreography school in Berlin. To put a stop to her regular attempts to escape Khromov, one tough character, decides to marry her off to «the first comer». It appears
Production: Russia, 2016
Duration: 94 min
Directed by: Dmitry Izmestiev
Cast: Marina Vasilieva, Ivan Shakhnakharov, Alexander Samoilenko, Tatiana Yakovenko
Graphomafia
Contemporary Moscow. A successful publisher hires a band of graphomaniacs to kill a famous writer. The plan is to steal the manuscript of his novel, claim publisher’s son to be its author and make him famous. And hack writers would get their works published.
But committing a murder is much different from writing a thriller book. Besides that, the son loves pretty girls – and doesn’t care about literature or fame.
Special Prize at XI Comedy Film Festvival “Russia, give a smile!
Production: Russia, 2016
Duration: 90 min
Directed by: Vladimir Zaikin, Eduard Radzyukevich
Cast: Gosha Kutsenko, Daniil Spivakovskiy, Yuriy Stoyanov, Aristarkh Venes, Darya Ekamasova
Actress
A film “Actress” was one of the cinematography remarkable events. Released in 2007, this movie didn’t fit well into a common idea of contemporary motion pictures. A famous Russian director Stanislav Govoruhin had no intention to create a box-office hit. His attention was focused on problems and imperfections of ordinary people.
The movie displays things as they are – but still slightly romances real life. The storyline is based on a small episode of a theatre actress life, which is out of luck in love and is badly casted. She dreams of fruitful career and family happiness.
A lead character, Anya, lives in a small chamber in a dormitory. Her close friend lends Anya support and gives her advisory opinion. One evening they were amusing leisure by playing patience and drinking vodka neat. This moment turns out to be a tipping point for Anya. Her life changes cardinally. Anya finds love and gets a long-awaited part in a beloved theatre. Thus she shifts up from failure to truly happy girl which has everything she dreamed of.
Production: Russia, 2007
Duration: 102 min.
Director: Stanislav Govoruhin
Cast: Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya, Yurii Stepanov, Mariya Aronova, Dmitry Pevcov, Aleksandr Abdulov, Fedor Bondarchuk, Mikhail Efremov
Divorce On A Whim
Sergey, a former cycling coach and Elena, CEO of a giant book retailer chain ,have been together for over twenty years. Suddenly, marital disputes create a situation that threatens to escalate into divorce.
Sergey acts on an impulse and walks out to start his life all over again. He leaves home not realizing how dramatically life can change in just a few hours. Pulled into a series of incredible adventures and crazy situations with their loved ones, the strength of Sergei and Elena’s family ties is put to the test.
Production: Russia, 2015
Duration: 79 min.
Directed by: Ilya Severov
Cast: Konstantin Yushkevich, Natalya Surkova, Vyacheslav Korobitsin, Yuriy Galtsev, Natalya Tkachenko, Lyubov Virolaynen, Anton Pulit, Atrem Veselov, Katrina Zorina, Artem Anchukov
Slacker
She is an ambitious, self-sufficing and solitary business lady that runs her own company. The company is to bid for a tender for a very precious piece of land. Encounter with the competitors forces our business woman to look for protection.
He is a driver and a security guard, a good guy, but cannot be trusted with anything: he’s a slacker. However, in extreme circumstances it is he who comes to her rescue…
Production: Russia, 2011
Duration: 80 min.
Director: Valeriy Ibragimov
Cast: Nikolay Kudryashov, Yulia Kuvaeva, Oleg Sidorov, Yevgeny Savchuk
Kolatchi
Yegorka Kalatch is an ordinary guy from a Cossack family, his ancestors had been serving their mother country for centuries. Suddenly it turns out that he didn’t receive a draft notice. The whole family is shocked and tries to restore justice. As a result, Yegorka is accepted to the Kremlin regiment. The neighbours don’t believe it and demand proof that he really serves in Kremlin, let’s say, a photo of him with the president. Is it a ‘can do’ task for Yegor?
Production: Russia, 2011
Duration: 81 min.
Director: Nurbeck Egen
Cast: Vladimir Ilyin, Fyodor Dobronravov, Irina Kupchenko, Andrey Nazimov, Svetlana Permyakova