Natalya Korennaya

When you love, your life changes beyond recognition. When you are loved, you may not even suspect it. But if your life turns into a continuous nightmare, if every minute you are waiting for news of the death of another loved one - such love cannot be overlooked. It is only necessary to calculate the lover. And as soon as possible.

Almanac of five short stories commissioned by ROSKOMKINO to celebrate the 100th anniversary of cinema.

A story about young boy Slava and his first trip to the sea.

In the hands of Mityai, a school geography teacher from Sochi, there turns out to be not just a talking parrot, but an intelligent parrot from an ancient family. His name is Innocent — or just Kesha for his own. The parrot turns out to be with Mitya at a difficult moment in his life — his girlfriend Lera puts the relationship on pause. She wants a luxurious life, but Mityai cannot provide it for her. But a parrot can. More precisely, he can "pump" Mitya so that he starts earning a lot. New friends conclude a contract — Kesha will help Mitya return Lera, and Mityai will help the parrot find and return his beloved parrot, from whom they were separated a long time ago.

Russia’s answer to U.S. box-office hit “The Social Network”, the movie tells the story of a pair of Moscow students in the mid-90s who create an internet search engine that becomes one of the largest in the world.

The Second World War is over. But after each war the human destinies are left. This film is about two of them. The former officer of the Wehrmacht. The former prisoner of the Nazi concentration camp.

The heroine, a lonely woman, falls in love with a young businessman very similar to a childhood friend. Everything separates them, the age difference, the social position and this creates a multitude of obstacles, sad or ridiculous, to the realization of their aspirations. But how to imagine that this man, who was trying at the beginning to get rid of an intruder, comes to a declaration of love accompanied by flowers.

At the age of fifteen, Maya experiences severe psychological trauma: her father is killed in front of her eyes. On this basis, Maya's mother develops persecution mania, and she and her daughter endlessly move from place to place. Maya, an already introverted teenager, changes schools several times a year and finally loses contact with her peers.