Maksim Dobromyslov

Four friends convene at a café and engage in a peculiar game entitled "Empty Space". Thereafter, their paths diverge for a prolonged period. Each endeavours to find self-realisation through various forms of creative activity, seeking to impose their minor and superfluous art upon a vast and indifferent world.

A young family moves to the countryside to escape creditors. But in the village home of their deceased aunt, an evil more dangerous than any debt collector awaits them.

This is the story of two sixteen-year-olds, Alexandra Makarova and Danila Krasnov, who are fighting for their love and their right to be themselves. In order to be together, they must escape from their homes, go into hiding, and lead a double life. Trying to protect their freedom of choice and their individuality, they cross the line and turn into Bonnie and Clyde on the run, trying to avenge the world that has no room for them.

"Closing" is a film almanac made up of nine verses. Instead of a rap beat, there is beer, rain, a beach, a zoo, random conversations, and a city that lives its own life. These are not stories with a beginning and an end, but statements written into the rhythm of the festival, where cinema becomes a way to be together and a way to be alone. Any almanac is a film cypher: everyone goes to the microphone, says their piece, and leaves, leaving room for someone else. "Closing" is exactly that: a collection of voices in which you can hear laughter, fatigue, love, and meaninglessness. This is a film about how cinema closes the day and opens the night.

At the end of September 2023, several people went into the forest to make a film about the end of the world. They lived in tents for ten days as the cold weather approached. Each person came up with a character. How would they like to meet the end? What scares them and what can give them hope? Collective life in difficult conditions led to the stories intersecting and the boundaries between people and characters disappearing.

The life of a simple worker begins to change dramatically when he receives love letters with confessions from a certain man. The plot is based on the play of the same name by Igor Stam at the Teatr.doc based on the play by Dmitry Karapuzov.

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A happy family - parents and an angelic daughter. The mother loves her so much that she is ready to dissolve in the child without a trace... or is it the child who is ready to suck all the juices out of the mother?

After his wife's death, Valera lives alone in his parents' old house. Suddenly, his brother Tolya returns from Germany, where he left his wife and daughter in Russia. The two hurriedly paint the fence before winter comes, while trying to solve the mystery of the Git cigarettes found in the closet. These memories make them re-evaluate their current lives.

A young family moves to the countryside to escape creditors. But in the village home of their deceased aunt, an evil more dangerous than any debt collector awaits them.

This is the story of two sixteen-year-olds, Alexandra Makarova and Danila Krasnov, who are fighting for their love and their right to be themselves. In order to be together, they must escape from their homes, go into hiding, and lead a double life. Trying to protect their freedom of choice and their individuality, they cross the line and turn into Bonnie and Clyde on the run, trying to avenge the world that has no room for them.

Eugene could have cut down and sold the entire wood, Maria could have made a successful career asa designer, if not for Snow Maiden. The fragile girl forces a married couple on the brink of divorce to stay together. What should be done to keep a lucky life afloat? Will the locks stop Snow Maiden from going away? After all, even the coldest heart longs for love.

The protagonist is invited to take part in a video flash mob featuring a hundred famous actors. However, he begins to look for a deeper meaning behind it.

A writer of sci-fi thrillers lives a happy life: two wonderful children, a caring husband, work she loves, and a cozy home. But one day, it all begins to crumble. A guest moves into the house—and it is as if the whole world turns to ice: her children grow distant, and her husband no longer trusts her. Rita sees things that no one else does: a halo in the sky, frost on the windows, the ghost of a deceased friend. She cannot tell whether she is imagining it all or not. Has she lost her mind, or is everything happening to her real?

Love. Old age. Death. Youth. Two stories about the strange feelings. One tells how a mother's immense love can destroy her son’s fate. The second one shows that the love of a sick old man can give new life to a young girl.

When the past haunts the present and frightens the future, there's only one option: confront it. Two sisters travel to their abandoned family home in the Russian hinterland to uncover the mystery surrounding the tragedy that shaped their lives.

Three old men are the last inhabitants of an abandoned village. Despite the daily difficulties, they want to live and stay in their own place.

Experimental film. Reflections on the Russian film industry.

Little Sash is afraid to get old. Sasha heard many times from her grandmother about her transient life that seemed to go by in a flash. In her words, you can close your eyes as a little girl and wake up as an elderly woman. One day Sasha desides to try this out. To close her eyes and see what happens in time.

Late 2000s. Fifteen-year-old Kira doesn’t come home after a friend’s birthday and starts saving to leave her town—away from a household where adults lay down rules they can’t follow themselves. She and her friend earn money by giving children pony rides and setting it aside for the trip. But the dream of a new life comes with consequences: Kira is reported missing, the police get involved, and her mother will do anything to regain control. A coming-of-age drama with wry humour, where fantasies of freedom help Kira withstand the pressure of reality.

Lonely young seamstress Masha rents an apartment from widower Valery, who recently lost his beloved wife. Unable to come to terms with the loss, Valery visits Masha almost every day, which prevents her from improving her personal life.

At the end of September 2023, several people went into the forest to make a film about the end of the world. They lived in tents for ten days as the cold weather approached. Each person came up with a character. How would they like to meet the end? What scares them and what can give them hope? Collective life in difficult conditions led to the stories intersecting and the boundaries between people and characters disappearing.

The life of a simple worker begins to change dramatically when he receives love letters with confessions from a certain man. The plot is based on the play of the same name by Igor Stam at the Teatr.doc based on the play by Dmitry Karapuzov.

Katya is raising her deaf son, Misha, alone. She is particularly concerned about Misha's inability to speak, unlike his peers with a similar disability. The boy finds his voice after experiencing his first small tragedy. A joyful event is intertwined with a painful experience, love with resentment.

The film tells about the small town of Gubkin and its inhabitants. A little-known settlement in southern Russia has a huge iron ore quarry. Through the mosaic of local stories, we will see the city and the quarry next to it, like a living creature that influences people's lives with its mood.

In a small Ural village live only simple ordinary people except for the local hearing-impaired “fool” lyosha. he lives in a makeshift house made of garbage, weekly draws strange circles on the fields and tries to catch radio waves 24 hours a day in hope to contact representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations. the villagers laugh at lyosha and his strange hobbies, but everything changes when the one he has been calling for so long finally visits him.

Having reached her forty-fifth birthday, the disappointed female choreographer Agnes, on the verge of a nervous breakdown, realizes that her life is nothing more than an uninterrupted chain of artificial, far—fetched episodes. Agnes decides to go all in to create the production of her whole life. However, in order to achieve her goal, she must come face to face with her own ego, irrevocably absorbed by a dark and bloody Persona.