Pavel Sergienko

Captain Fedor Volkonogov works in law enforcement. He is on the good books of the management, and his colleagues respect him. But one day, his life abruptly changes: he is declared a criminal. The Captain manages to run away before he is arrested. Suddenly he turns into an outcast, whom his former colleagues search across the whole city. At night Volkonogov is visited by a messenger from the other world, who warns him that after death he will go hell and be tormented forever. But he has an opportunity to change his fate and get to paradise if he repents, and at least one person forgives him. The Captain embarks on his way to find forgiveness. But he cannot even fathom what tests are awaiting him on this way.

Leningrad, 1980’ler... Rock’n’roll ve blues müziğin yaygınlaşması, Perestroyka’nın yaklaştığını müjdeliyor; Lou Reed, Led Zeppelin ve David Bowie’nin kaçak plakları elden ele geziyor. Mike ve güzel eşi Natasha, genç müzisyen Viktor ile tanışınca, şüpheyle dolu bir devrin en umutsuz günlerinde müzikle yoğrulmuş bir aşk üçgeni doğuyor.

1971, Leningrad. Ölümünden sonra ünlenecek Rus yazar Sergei Dovlatov, günlerini yazılarının yayımlanmasının koşulu olan Yazarlar Sendikası’na üyeliğini kovalayıp ufak yazı işleriyle geçirir. Akşamları ise caz dinlenen partilerde kentteki sanatçı ve yazarlarla bir araya gelir. Under Electric Clouds’un yönetmeni Alexey German Jr., Berlin’de dünya prömiyerini yapan yeni filminde Dovlatov’un hayatından altı günü anlatıyor ve bu hikâye üzerinden dönemin entelektüel çevresi ve onların Brejnev zamanı Sovyetler Birliği’yle ilişkisinin de portresini sunuyor.

An attractive young coroner involves herself in a strange relationship with s.e.x, desires, and deaths. The phantasmagoria filled with gore, e.r.o.t.i.c, and mystery unfolds during the serial killer search. The viewer has to guess, who the main protagonist is, and what part is she playing - a victim, a killer, or a mere witness?

Lisa is going through a divorce: her husband found a younger woman and left her with two preschool-age boys. Just when things begin to settle down after the breakup, Lisa receives a strange call from a woman that calls herself her aunt, despite Lisa's growing up in an orphanage and never knowing her relatives. The woman tells Lisa that her bloodline is under a curse that kills all of its offspring. The only way to escape the curse is to abandon the children. Lisa thinks it's a conspiracy her ex-husband planned to get full custody, so she throws the woman out.

Garpastum is a Latin word meaning ball game. Set in 1914 in St. Petersburg, the brothers Andrey and Nikolai are passionate about the matches they play on the streets. They hatch a scheme to buy a playing field. But World War I has already begun and soon their lives and dreams will be shattered.

Five short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient and a young man released from prison are the main characters of the film, heroes in a time of no heroes. All of them have the important qualities of being openhearted and not afraid of loving.

Russia 2017. The world could be on the verge of a great war. People are anxious that things could fall apart. Evolving around an unfinished building, a diverse group of outsiders struggle to find their place in this rapidly changing society, making up the mosaic of existence that is life itself…

Young Alisa is fed up with her life in Moscow, and moves to St. Petersburg. Her roommates in the collective flat are two junkies, Vel and her boyfriend Valera the Dead Man. First they fight, but soon the two women form a friendship. Together they even go after the Petersburg underworld when Dead Man is abducted because he can't pay his debts.

August 1960. Director Nikolai Berentsev is working on a large-scale science fiction film about an expedition to Venus. The construction of grandiose decorations begins in the pavilion. Berentsev himself develops models of planets and spacecraft, comes up with special devices for combined filming. He tries to imagine and visualize something that no one has ever seen — life on other planets. He believes that fantasy should run ahead of science, but faces skepticism from colleagues and the scientific community. In the end, he himself begins to doubt whether his film is needed by the audience, why these dreams of Space, when there are so many unresolved problems on Earth.